README.md

Owl

Overview

🚀-speed file-watcher written in Golang, Owl is mostly suitable as an automatic build/run/test tool.

##Installation

$ go get github.com/flowup/owl/cmd/owl # this will install the binary in $GOBIN

Usage

You can use owl to simply run tests when anything within the current folder(recursively) changes. The -i flag will ignore a directory named bin

$ owl -r 'go test ./...' -i bin

Flags

• -i or --ignore to ignore files and folders (default: vendor, node_modules, bower_components, .glide, .git)
• -r or --run for specific command
• -d or --debounce debounce time for filesystem events before command execution in miliseconds (default 500)
• -f or --filter files are filtered by regular expression

Config file owl.yaml

You can set default settings for the owl command within the folder with config file.

🤖 Note that any environment variables and flags will override this configuration

run: "echo \"Hello Owl!\""
debounce: 100
verbose: true
ignore:
 - "vendor"
 - "bin"
filter: "go$"