Summary

A shell script that may be combined with fswatch on Mac OS X to watch a golang project for changes. Upon changes, the program is stopped, compiled and restarted

Usage with fswatch

fswatch /your/go/src/dir/to/watch "gohawk.sh yourcmd"

Example assumes both fswatch and gowatch.sh are in the PATH. This example does the following:

• fswatch watches /your/go/src/dir/to/watch directory for any changes e.g. file saves
• Upon detecting changes, fswatch invokes the gohawk.sh yourcmd
• gohawk.sh in-turn stops, installs, runs and tests the yourcmd

Credits

Inspired by gowatcher for Linux.