Hwatch: A modern alternative to the watch command

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Hey, 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?

i'm assuming the h stands for 'whatever the h in htop stands for'? good idea.

Now 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/h...

I always assumed the h stood for (more) human-readable, like commands such as df -h.

It's for how it's pronounced, like Hwil Hweaton

Very 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.

I 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

Example 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.

I'm also a fan of Viddy which looks to be the same thing written in Go.

https://github.com/sachaos/viddy

Those diff look awesome.

Nice

nice is a different UNIX command :-)

Wonder what an "hnice" would look like.

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