inf

Instant feedback for your development loop.

inf monitors source files and executes the given compile / run commands as soon as those files change.

Installation

cargo install inf

Or via the install script:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/magnickolas/inf/main/install.sh | sh

Or build from source:

git clone https://github.com/magnickolas/inf
cd inf
make install prefix=~/.local

Usage examples

Rebuild and run when main.c changes:

inf --run ./main gcc -o main main.c

Pipe input into the binary when either main.c or input.txt changes:

inf --input input.txt --run ./main gcc -o main main.c

For build systems, list every source file that should trigger a rebuild. Here the shell expands the globs and pipes them into inf (inf monitors all *.c and *.h files in src/):

echo src/*.c src/*.h | inf --run "make test" make -j4

• Run a static type checker in zen mode (no meta-headers), whenever any Python file in src/ or its subdirectories changes:

inf -z mypy src/**/*.py