3 homepage: https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
5 watchexec is a simple, standalone tool that watches a path and runs a command whenever it detects modifications.
8 ### Updating `watchexec`
10 `webi watchexec@stable`
12 Use the `@beta` tag for pre-releases.
16 Watch all JavaScript, CSS and HTML files in the current directory and all
17 subdirectories for changes, running `make` when a change is detected:
20 watchexec --exts js,css,html make
23 Call `make test` when any file changes in this directory/subdirectory, except
24 for everything below `target`:
27 watchexec -i target make test
30 Call `ls -la` when any file changes in this directory/subdirectory: