Watch and Run

A portable live reload shell command utility for monitor files and rerun command when any files given is changed.

Install

git clone https://github.com/snoymy/wandr.git
cd wandr

Install locally

cp ./wandr.sh ~/.local/bin/wandr
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/wandr

Or install globally

sudo cp ./wandr.sh /usr/local/bin/wandr
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wandr

or you can simply copy to where you want to use.

Uninstall

Uninstall from local

rm ~/.local/bin/wandr

Uninstall from global

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/wandr

Usage

wandr [options] <command> <file1> [<file2> ... <fileN>]

Options

-c  Clear terminal screen before reload <command>.
-v  Verbose reloading.
-h  Show help and exit.

Examples

Reload program when main.py is updated:

$ wandr "python main.py" main.py

Reload program when main.py or lib.py is updated:

$ wandr "python main.py" main.py lib.py

Reload web server when any .py files in project is added or modified:

$ wandr "python server.py" $(find . -name "*.py")

or with config file

$ wandr "python server.py" $(find . -name "*.py") config.yml