viddy
Viddy is a modern watch command alternative that periodically executes commands and shows their results with color outputs and difference highlights. With the time machine mode, you can wrap past command outputs like video and store and upload past history records. Vim-like shortcuts offer advanced features such as pager (pager) support, text search, and suspend command execution, and restart.
sachaos · Modern CLI & Rust Tools
- You can run commands at certain intervals and highlight the differences in outputs.
- With time machine mode, you can browse past command outputs.
- Using vim-like key assignments, you can examine outputs within a pager.
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Viddy: A modern watch command. Time machine and pager etc.
“Funny viddy came up here today. I created this note about watch in my dotfiles just yesterday (edit: probably not watch's fault! oops..): > # TODO: this is ugly, doesn't print colours, is there a modern version? I couldn't get watch to print colours and styles, with the -c…”
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Viddy: A modern watch command. Time machine and pager etc.
“I'd suggest logging to sqlite to provide later replays and speed estimations at keypoints. It might be nice to also add some cascading signature of the timestamps for tamper evidence (ex: merkle tree) Usecase: storing timestamped proof of execution, automating metrics history…”