Run this script in your directory to auto build whenever you modify a golang file

autogobuild.sh

#!/bin/bash

cur=`pwd`

inotifywait -mqr --timefmt '%d/%m/%y %H:%M' --format '%T %w %f' \
   -e modify ./ | while read date time dir file; do
    ext="${file##*.}"
    if [[ "$ext" = "go" ]]; then
        echo "$file changed @ $time $date, rebuilding..."
        go build
    fi
done

Very useful script.

I modified it a bit, to allow providing the watch location as a command line parameter.

#!/bin/bash

LOCATION=${1:-./}

echo "watching location ${LOCATION}"

inotifywait -mqr --timefmt '%d/%m/%y %H:%M' --format '%T %w %f' \
   -e modify ${LOCATION} | while read date time dir file; do
    ext="${file##*.}"
    if [[ "$ext" = "go" ]]; then
        echo "${dir}${file} changed @ $time $date, rebuilding..."
        go build ${dir}${file}
    fi
done

Thank you for this.

I made a fork of your script here. I'm using it mostly for web development. Changes are:

• Using "moved_to" instead of "modify" because most editors and IDEs use an atomic way of saving files (saving a temporary file than renaming it).
• Killing and relaunching the process and each build
• Displaying notifications with notify-send (so Linux only)
• Building dependencies (go get) if some were built during last build
• Using current dir and $GOPATH as monitored locations