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		JoshMcguigan on April 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim The pipeline approach here is interesting, but it seems you'd be on your own for filtering out changes in the build directory, etc. I typically use watchexec [1] for this. `watchexec make` By default, watchexec will filter out changes in files based on `.gitignore`. [1]: https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec

RMPR on April 13, 2020 [–]

This is pretty good, didn't know about watchexec, but you can achieve the same by choosing carefully the command you pipe from, for example:

    ls *.md | make

Will only trigger the build if a md file is modified, which is what I think the author is interested in.

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