rerun

A linux command line program for watching a directory and rerunning a command when it's contents change.

BUILD

Requires gcc

make

You can copy 'rerun' into a local ~/bin or some other location that is on your PATH.

USAGE

rerun DIRECTORY FILE_PATTERN COMMAND...

DESCRIPTION

Watches DIRECTORY for changes in any file that matches FILE_PATTERN and then runs COMMAND. FILE_PATTERN should be in the glob format.

You probably want to wrap both the FILE_PATTERN and COMMAND in quotes, so the shell doesn't pre-expand patterns and the command is seen as a single argument.

Depends on inotify which is a Linux Kernel 2.6.13 and later feature.

EXAMPLES

rerun web/js "*.js" "juicer merge -min '' web/js/behavior.js"
rerun web "*.css" bin/package_site.sh

BUGS

rerun doesn't watch directories recursively.
rerun doesn't handle lots of file modifications in a short amount of time well. It will call your command multiple times.
Usage isn't written in stone and can be improved

LICENSE

This code is licensed under the Mozilla Tri-License MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1

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