Eyes-on is a minimal Cross-platform command line file watcher which lets user watch for modification/deletion over single/multiple files.

📃Features/Todos

• [x] Watches for modification and deletion in files
• [x] Users can change the checking interval of eyeson based on their needs
• [x] Users can pass command to execute which triggers when any file in watch list is modified.

🔧Installation

Download suitable Eyeson execuatble from here

after downloading the suitable binary file, set the path variable for the binary like so:

For macOs and Linux

PATH="/path/to the downloaded/binary/file:$PATH"

or

if your have node js installed then use:

npm install -g @darthcucumber/eyes-on

💻Usage

Commands and Flags

Examples

• Watching over single file

eyeson watch file1.txt

watches over file1.txt

• Watching over multiple files

eyeson watch file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt

watches over the file name provided as agrs. note: if any of the file provided as agrs does not exists then it stops watching and exits.

• Watching over all the files in current directory

eyeson watch *

gives following result:

• Watching over specific files in current directory

eyeson watch *.js

only watches for all js files in the directory gives following result:

• Changing watch interval time

eyeson watch *.js -t=1000

this changes the interval to 1000ms (1s) i.e the interval at which eyeson checks for file modification. Takes input in milliseconds. Default is 2s or 2000ms.

• Passing single line commands

eyeson watch test.py -c="python3 test.py"

this executes python3 test.py (runs the python file test.py) command on any modification in the files its watching over. gives following result:

• Passing multiple line commands

eyeson watch test.cpp -c="g++ -o test test.cpp
./test"

this executes g++ -o test test.cpp (compiles test.cpp) first and then executes ./test (runs the cpp program) on any modification in the files its watching over. This feature comes in very handy.

gives following result: