Sep 28, 2008

Unix utilities I want on Windows, pt. 1

Suppose I’m writing a markdown file in my favorite text editor and I have a markdown2html <input file> <output file> program that converts it to html. Every time I save, I’d like to regenerate the html file. No problem:

keep markdown2html markdown-file.txt html-file.html

Or maybe I want to restart a program every time I edit its configuration file. Or something. This little utility saves the day. Unfortunately, keep monitors files using a mechanism that doesn’t work on Windows.

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