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

Nice one! I modified it a bit to compile and run a C program:

perl -E 'while(-f $ARGV[1]){ $now=(stat(_))[9]; system("@ARGV"), print + "-" x 80, "\n" if ($now-$prev); $prev=$now; sleep 1 }' gcc a.c \&\& +./a.out
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