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Run arbitrary commands when files change

14 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2021-12-06 · latest 2026-04-01

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  1. …lets you directly query JSON, parquet, csv files with SQL queries and convert one to the other. https://github.com/eradman/entr (rerun commands automatically when provided files change) (useful for rerunning test commands automatically…
    comment by Zizizizz · 2026-04-01 · in Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
  2. You might also like https://github.com/eradman/entr
    comment by eru · 2025-05-27 · in TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
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    Event Notify Test Runner – run arbitrary commands when files change
    story by gjvc · 2025-04-06 · 0 comments
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    Run arbitrary commands when files change
    story by dp-hackernews · 2024-09-27 · 0 comments
  5. https://github.com/eradman/entr is Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C 4 154 163 880 Bourne Shell 2 74 28 536 C/C++ Header 4 21 66 70 Markdown 1 21 0 37 YAML 1…
    comment by kreyenborgi · 2024-09-26 · in Rewriting Rust
  6. …but I probably spend more time with bacon for commonplace working sessions. Also in the ring are https://github.com/eradman/entr and watchexec (which shares code and authorship with cargo-watch IIRC). As you can see I'm a fan of…
    comment by mtndew4brkfst · 2024-08-28 · in Rust Dylib Rabbit Holes
  7. …>>python -m unittest Edit: I guess if you're argument is for the watcher...great but I use `entr` https://github.com/eradman/entr when I want that feature and it just works across languages but I've not used continuous testing for ages.
    comment by zuuzjzdjhzvgahs · 2023-11-02 · in Htmx, Rust and Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack
  8. …[2] https://caddyserver.com/docs/command-line#caddy-file-server [3] https://syncthing.net [4] https://github.com/eradman/entr [5] https://nitoyon.github.io/livereloadx/ [6] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/lowtechguys/blob/main/Makefile
    comment by alin23 · 2023-07-04 · in How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
  9. Mentioned in reflex's competition section I am a huge fan of entr https://github.com/eradman/entr
    comment by leetrout · 2023-05-23 · in How to start a Go project in 2023
  10. …rebuild a static site every time the build script[2] (py) or a Jinja2 template (j2) changes. [0]: https://github.com/eradman/entr [1]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/06/28/entr/ [2]: https://gist.github.com/polyrand/3bed83897658806bd490e1d44df..…
    comment by polyrand · 2022-11-16 · in Show HN: I built a tool to get instant test results
  11. The page linked above says: > WARNING: This is a (possibly outdated and/or unmaintained) fork of https://github.com/eradman/entr .
    comment by everybodyknows · 2022-10-05 · in Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
  12. …to restart it, I just switch to that and save the file. Similarly you could do this with "entr" https://github.com/eradman/entr
    comment by pas · 2022-01-06 · in Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters
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    Run arbitrary commands when files change
    story by bronzecarnage · 2021-12-15 · 1 comment
  14. In a similar vein, "entr" ( https://github.com/eradman/entr ) relaunches any CLI command whenever the specified files/directory changes, with the possibility to clear the screen every time.
    comment by rakoo · 2021-12-06 · in Hacking the planet with Notcurses: a guide to TUIs (2020) [pdf]