tanuki

Utility for watching directories and running actions when they change.

The utility can be used in immediate mode and directly watch and run an action, or with a json config file that allows you to have modules with directory groups and an action each.

Use it!

tanuki <run|watch> [config_file]
tanuki -i watch_dir [action]

run         Runs actions in all modules.
watch       Watches modules for changes and runs actions on them.
config_file Tanuki config file. If empty, "tanuki.json" in the current
              directory is used.
-i          Immediate mode. In this mode tanuki watches a single directory and
              runs the action when it is modified. if no action is specified
              it simply exits.
watch_dir   Directory to watch.
action      Action to run when directory is modified.

Tanuki json configuration file schema is as follows:
  {
    "modules": [
      {
        "name": "My module name",
        "rootDir": "path/to/module",
        "watchDirs": [
          "watched1",
          "subdir/watched2"
        ],
        "action": "echo 'This will run in rootDir.'"
      }
    ]
  }

Get it!

It is highly recommended that you build it yourself on your platform.

If you want a pre-compiled binary for macOS, Windows, or Ubuntu, check the latest release. These are built using GitHub Actions on GitHub Runners.

Build it!

Clone this repo. Then:

./build MinSizeRel clean

Receive your tasty binary!

After building, tanuki executable is in the code/bin directory.