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Viddy

Modern watch command.

Note: This is the fork of original viddy tool, which provides the ability to import viddy tool a package in the source code. This fork allows to use viddy to show output data in different juju commands.

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.
  • Support shell alias
  • Customize keymappings.
  • Customize color.

Keymaps

key
SPACE Toggle time machine mode
s Toggle suspend execution
b Toggle ring terminal bell
d Toggle diff
t Toggle header display
? or h Toggle help view
/ 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
Shift-O (Time machine mode) Go to oldest position
Shift-N (Time machine mode) Go to current position

What is "viddy" ?

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

PS

The Juju team thanks viddy developers (https://github.com/sachaos/viddy) for creating such a cool 'watch' analog, and looking forward to switch to original repo after "importing as package" functionality will be introduced.