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Re:Ask HN: What's the best obscure but useful CLI tool? by rthomas6 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:54PM (#35460235)
That's awesome. Seems like it would pair well with Make.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best obscure but useful CLI tool? by coreyp_1 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:10PM (#35461091)
I use inotifywait with make for a similar effect. I save a source file and my code is re-compiled and tests are run.

I love it!

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best obscure but useful CLI tool? by john-tells-all on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:31AM (#35535024)
absolutely. 100% of my projects use Entr ("run thing on file change"), and Make ("use short name to run a complex script, e.g. test -> pytest").
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