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watchexec
Executes commands in response to file modifications

Rust · 7192 stars
clearscreen
Cross-platform terminal screen clearing library

Rust · 81 stars
process-wrap
Wrap a Command, to spawn processes in a group or session or job object etc (successor to command-group)

Rust · 47 stars

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Use of non-async-signal-safe code in pre_exec Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

watchexec/process-wrap#56 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Feature request: add option to run at least every time period Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

watchexec/watchexec#1107 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2026
FreeBSD inotify backend Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

watchexec/watchexec#1093 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
fanotify backend Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#1090 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
is_windows_10 documentation somewhat incorrect Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

watchexec/clearscreen#41 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Command killed by Custom(4) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

watchexec/watchexec#1030 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Option to expose initial watch state on first invocation Open

new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

watchexec/watchexec#992 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 15, 2026
Limit execution time or count Open

new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#991 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 15, 2026
Darcs: support boringfile preference Open

new feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

watchexec/watchexec#898 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 12, 2025
Command hangs if it tries to set terminal modes Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

watchexec/watchexec#874 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 6, 2024
Add new --clear mode to reduce time spent with a cleared screen Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#865 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2024
--ignore gets ignored + unowned files break all watching Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

watchexec/watchexec#863 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 24, 2024
In 1.24.0, ctrl+c no longer interrupts the child process Open

bug need repro

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

watchexec/watchexec#716 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 10, 2023
Async filtering Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

watchexec/watchexec#680 · Opened Nov 25, 2023
Feature wanted: PTY support for interactive REPLs Open

improvement not a bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#655 · 16 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 14, 2023
The `--ignore` parameter does not take effect Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#654 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 14, 2023
Capture command's Stdout Open

new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#492 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 4, 2023
Add support to run separate command only once after first watch iteration Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#456 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2022
Another example of surprising gitignore behavior Open

bug has workaround

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#371 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 25, 2022
CLI filters should in some cases override ignore files Open

improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#265 · Opened Mar 15, 2022
Be able to run multiple commands at once Open

new feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

watchexec/watchexec#234 · 12 reactions · Opened Jan 21, 2022
Option to clear only on restart, not on first run Open

improvement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

watchexec/watchexec#224 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2021
Support sending signals on Windows Open

help wanted new feature OS: Windows

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

watchexec/watchexec#219 · Opened Oct 15, 2021
Ignoring files doesn't work right Open

bug has workaround improvement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

watchexec/watchexec#203 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2021
Review and upgrade filtering/ignores for intuitiveness Open

bug improvement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

watchexec/watchexec#188 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2021
Reload ignores Open

improvement new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

watchexec/watchexec#187 · Opened Apr 11, 2021
Ignore directory events Open

improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#183 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 11, 2021
Flag to run specific commands on success/failure Open

new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

watchexec/watchexec#101 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 4, 2019
Optionally page output Open

new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

watchexec/watchexec#88 · 5 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2018
Feature request: restart on condition Open

new feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

watchexec/watchexec#83 · 8 comments · Opened May 25, 2018
Support for a config file so a single instance can match/exec multiple components Open

new feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

watchexec/watchexec#33 · 5 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jan 2, 2017

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