Simple tool to automatically run anything when a watched file changes.

Now includes desktop notifications (tested on Ubuntu) for failures.

Originally written for auto-executing Go builds and tests

go get github.com/jboelter/autoexec

Building Go Source

autoexec -c go -p src -s .go install -v ./...

Testing Go

autoexec -c go -p src -s .go test ./...

Usage

autoexec
  -c="": the exec to run
  -h=false: display the help
  -p="": the path to monitor
  -s="": the file suffix to monitor
  -v=false: verbose output

Inspired by github.com/ryanslade/goautotest

There are OS-specific limits as to how many watches can be created. See the package "gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1"