An option to print a colored message when the command completes

[ethercrow]

Here's what I do currently:

$ watchexec -- 'make build && echo "\n\033[0;32mOK\033[0m\n" || echo "\n\033[0;31mFAIL\033[0m\n"'

What I would like to do instead:

$ watchexec --colored -- make build

Please see a similar issue in another tool for some more motivation and screenshots: commercialhaskell/stack#1109

[Mange]

Suggestion: Instead of bloating watchexec, you could have your own wrapper that you can use.

Place this in ~/.local/bin/show-exit:

#!/bin/sh

if ("$@"); then
  echo "$(tput setaf 3)Exited successfully$(tput sgr0)"
else
  status=$?
  echo "$(tput setaf 1)Failed with exit code ${status}$(tput sgr0)"
  exit $status
do

Then you can use it in front of any other command.

watchexec -- show-exit make build

I didn't test this script as I'm on my phone right now, but I think it would work.

[passcod]

Partial implementation in 1.18.0:

• no colours
• a message is only printed on non-success return

More improvements are likely!