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Hwatch: A modern alternative to the watch command
- someoneelse9 5y ago
- fvv 5y agoNice
- BeetleB 5y agonice is a different UNIX command :-) Wonder what an "hnice" would look like.
- CyberShadow 5y agoHey, you forgot to put this in the title: "written in Rust" :-) This looks nice, though I looked through my command history of "watch" and couldn't find any use cases where hwatch would be more useful. Am I using it wrong?
- jjice 5y agoVery neat, I'll have to give this a go. `watch` is one I use daily at work for various reasons. Diff and history are the perfect natural progression here.
- fikama 5y agoI have encountered this command lately. Maybe I should just google it, but if you could share some of those various reasons I would be grateful
- BeetleB 5y agoExample of my usage in an old job. We would submit jobs to a cluster. That cluster would have a queue, and there was a command to see the state of all jobs (waiting, running, etc). So I'd invoke it with the "watch" command so I can see the status of all my jobs and know when they've all done executing. I'm sure there are hundreds of other uses.
- onedr0p 5y agoI'm also a fan of Viddy which looks to be the same thing written in Go. https://github.com/sachaos/viddy https://github.com/sachaos/viddy
- kristianpaul 5y agoThose diff look awesome.
- smegsicle 5y agoi'm assuming the h stands for 'whatever the h in htop stands for'? good idea.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoIt's for how it's pronounced, like Hwil Hweaton
- wongarsu 5y agoNow I had to look that up. Htop was developed by Hisham Muhammad, and htop stands for "Hisham's top". It's a nod to pinfo, an info replacement by Przemek Borys named on the same principle. [1] 1: http://web.archive.org/web/20200213170304/http://hisham.hm/htop/index.php?page=faq http://web.archive.org/web/20200213170304/http://hisham.hm/h...
- kn0where 5y agoI always assumed the h stood for (more) human-readable, like commands such as df -h.
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