Watchexec Windows ^HOT^ Download
Doreen Kaczmarek
We use -n option to run the command directly, instead of wrapping it in a shell (watchexec runs in a shell by default). Then, with the path, you encapsulated both ends with ". These eliminate the issues with whitespace and non-English characters.
You're using a variable to make your script easy to manage. Imagine if you want to change the above path to another location, you will have to change it 2 times (for watchexec and for rclone), and that's only one path. If you use a variable, you'll only need to change the path you save in the variable. From the above example:
This command instructs watchexec to watch .rb and .erb files for modifications in the current folder and its subfolders. Whenever a file modification is reported, the command bin/rspec spec/some/path/to/a_particular_spec.rb will be executed.
To easily change the RSpec examples being run without relaunching watchexec every time, you can focus a particular example or example group with focus: true, fit, fdescribe, and fcontext. More details available on RSpec documentation.
Scenario is that my home dir has a lot of code in it and probably millions of files all in all. Running watchexec inside any leaf directory, even if it's empty, even using a specific path, will cause it to scan apparently every file inside my home dir. I don't want it to do that! I just want it to look at the current dir and nothing else.
On the latest version (I assume since 1.18), this behavior doesn't work. I didn't investigate deeply what happens to the signal, but in my case, neither watchexec nor the child process appear to respond to SIGINT when I press Ctrl+C.
User edits a file at 0ms, initiating the 500ms countdown.User edits a file at 100ms, resetting the 500ms countdown.User edits a file at 150ms, resetting the 500ms countdown.Finally, after no use, at 650ms, the watchexec executes the target command.
Software development often involves running the same commands over and over. Boring! Watchexec is a simple, standalone tool that watches a path and runs a command whenever it detects modifications. Install it today with cargo-binstall watchexec-cli, from the binaries below, find it in your favourite package manager, or build it from source with cargo install watchexec-cli.
Using the --filter-file / -F option, one or more "tagged filter files" can be loaded, with every filter on a new line. Blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored. Like for ignore files, the WATCHEXEC_FILTER_FILES envvar is also consulted, and the /.config/watchexec/filter global filter file applies if present (or in system-relevant location). There is no default project-local filter file.
This mode is experimental: it is not to be considered stable in any way. Using it will print a warning message when watchexec starts. The aim is to have it become good enough so it can be the default in a future breaking release (but not 2.0, which will instead focus on other long-standing issues which aren't as earth-shattering as this), or to use its ideas to improve the existing implementation, whichever ends up better for everyone!
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