hwatch

hwatch is a alternative watch command. That records the result of command execution and can display it history and diffs.

• Project Homepage [EN]
  • Repository

• hwatch [EN] @ Homebrew Formula

Documentation

• man 1 'hwatch' [EN]

Syntax

hwatch [PARAMETER ...] COMMAND [ARGUMENTS ...]

Parameters

-d [MODE], --differences [MODE]

Set diff MODE. Highlight changes between updates. If only -d is specified, it will be a watch diff.

plane

Do not show diff (default).

watch

Diff like watch command. Specifying the -d option applies this mode.

line

Can be done diff in line units.

word

Can be done diff in line word units.

-L NUMBER, --limit NUMBER

Set the NUMBER of history records to keep. Only work in watch mode. Set 0 for unlimited recording. (default: 5000)

-n INTERVAL, --interval INTERVAL

Specify update INTERVAL. The command will not allow quicker than 0.001 second interval, in which the smaller values are converted. Both . and , work for any locales.

Examples

Set alias to replace watch

vi "${HOME}/.profile"

if type -P 'hwatch' >'/dev/null' 2>&1; then
  alias watch='hwatch'
fi