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Sometimes you get spoiled by IDE's that have F5 to save and run what you have scripted so far... so... what can you do if you have 2 xterms (one for vi, the other for the output)?

perl -E 'while(-f $ARGV[0]){ $now=(stat(_))[9]; system($^X,@ARGV) if($
+now-$prev); $prev=$now; sleep 1}' /home/user/test.pl foo bar
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with test.pl having:

#! env perl
my $p1 = $ARGV[0];
my $p2 = $ARGV[1];
print "param1=$p1 param2=$p2\n";
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yields:

param1=foo param2=bar
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Tested to work under Win10 and Linux

Of course, there are better implementations. inotifywait or auditd if available on your system...

any perl golfers?

Update: we now incorporate the improvement made by haukex. Feel free to add more parameters if you need these

In reply to oneliner: autorun script when I save it in the editor by FreeBeerReekingMonk

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