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watchdiff
Watch output and trigger on diff!
Ever want to have watch
output only tell you what changed? And not only what, but when? Now you can! Enter: watchdiff
.
Watchdiff will monitor command output and will output in the terminal whenever a difference was detected in the output of the running program.
Usage
USAGE:
watchdiff [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [command]...
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
-p, --permament Compare to the initial output (permament mode)
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-d, --delay <delay> Delay between runs in seconds [default: 2]
ARGS:
<command>... Command to run
To run a command with arguments use --
to escape watchdiff
s argument parser, like so:
watchdiff -d 5 -- ls -alh
Installation
If you have Rust and Cargo installed, Watchdiff can be quickly compiled and installed by running the following command:
cargo install watchdiff
This will install Watchdiff to ~/.cargo/bin/watchdiff, which might need to be added to your shell's PATH variable.
Example output
The Watchdiff output is colorized such that red lines with a -
prepended were removed, and green lines with a +
were added.
Dependencies
~4–14MB
~124K SLoC