watch-cli

Command line wrapper for gaze to use in package.json scripts object.

Install globally

Install globally with npm

npm i -g watch-cli

Usage

watch -p "**/*.js" -c "npm test"

Options

Short | Long | Type | Description ---|---|---|--- -p | --pattern | string | glob pattern you are want to watch. -c | --command | string | Command to execute on watched files change.

Multi Patterns

It is possible to provide multi paterns, so if one of the files changed, the command will execute.

watch -p file1.js -p file2.fs -c command

Exported environment variables

Environment variables available from the command string:

FILENAME           Relative filename.
ABSOLUTE_FILENAME  Asolute filename.
EVENT              Event type. Is either 'changed', 'deleted' or 'added'.

Use it like this in Linux/macOS:

$ watch -p '**/*.js' -c 'jshint $FILENAME'

In Windows:

> watch -p "**/*.js" -c "jshint %FILENAME%"

Author

Brian Woodward

• github/doowb
• twitter/doowb

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Brian Woodward
Released under the MIT license

This file was generated by verb-cli on March 11, 2015.