Viddy

Modern watch command.

Viddy well, gopher. Viddy well.

Features

• Basic features of original watch command.
  • Execute command periodically, and display the result.
  • color output.
  • diff highlight.
• Time machine mode.
  • Rewind like video.
  • Go to the past, and back to the future.
• See output in pager.
• Vim like keymaps.
• Search text.
• Suspend and restart execution.
• Run command in precise intervals forcibly.

Install

...via Homebrew:

brew install sachaos/tap/viddy

...via MacPorts:

sudo port install viddy

Linux

wget -O viddy.tar.gz https://github.com/sachaos/viddy/releases/download/v0.1.6/viddy_0.1.6_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz && tar xvf viddy.tar.gz && mv viddy /usr/local/bin

go install github.com/sachaos/viddy@latest

Download from release page

Keymaps

key

SPACE Toggle time machine mode s Toggle suspend execution d Toggle diff t Toggle header display / Search text j Pager: next line k Pager: previous line Control-F Pager: page down Control-B Pager: page up g Pager: go to top of page Shift-G Pager: go to bottom of page Shift-J (Time machine mode) Go to the past Shift-K (Time machine mode) Back to the future Shift-F (Time machine mode) Go to more past Shift-B (Time machine mode) Back to more future

What is "viddy" ?

"viddy" is Nadsat word meaning to see. Nadsat is fictional argot of gangs in the violence movie "A Clockwork Orange".

Credits

The gopher's logo of viddy is licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attributions license.

The original Go gopher was designed by Renee French.