entr process dies when a watched file is deleted

[basti1302]

> touch a
> touch b
> touch c
> ls a b c  | entr echo Yo

Now, in another shell, each touch a, touch b or touch c will produce a Yo, as expected, but a rm a will cause the entr process to stop with the following error message:

entr: cannot open `a': No such file or directory

I want to use entr to restart a server when the deployment artifact changes, unfortunately the build tool deletes the deployment artifact before recreating it instead of just overwriting the old artifact.

PS: Before I forget, entr is a super handy tool and has made my developer life better in many situations, thanks for writing, sharing and maintaining it! <3

[basti1302]

Btw, this on entr version 3.4, on Linux Mint 17 Qiana, zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Kernel 3.13.0-85-generic

[robreiss]

It looks like the main repository is at bitbucket. I opened a simular issue if you are interested:
https://bitbucket.org/eradman/entr/issues/40/entr-process-stops-when-a-watched-file-is

[basti1302]

Closing this as it is not the main repository. Thanks, @robreiss for pointing that out.

[toneboy]

@basti1302 , @robreiss I have this same issue, but the link in your post above is no longer live. What was the solution? Thanks

[robreiss]

Hi @toneboy, I haven't used entr in years. Maybe check out the issues in the main github repository for entr under eradman. It looks like there are some closed issues regarding deleted files. Good luck!

https://github.com/eradman/entr/issues?q=is%3Aissue+deleted

[toneboy]

@robreiss Thanks. But, I think the issue was actually just that I was using an old version (4.1-1) which had not been bug fixed.