Alternatives to popular CLI tools: watch

This article spotlights alternative tools to watch.

The software featured here is free and open source.

watch alternatives
viddy	Modern watch command. It features in our Top 100 TUI apps
hwatch	Results are scrollable and displayed. Also features in our Top 100 TUI apps
watchexec	Run a command when files in the current directory change
neowatch	Alternative to watch also written in Rust
ov	Feature rich terminal pager
chokidar	Watch file system changes
watcher	Watch files in a directory for changes
wfh	Rsync as you edit
reflex	Run a command when files change
rwatch	Rust implementation of watch

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Alternatives to CLI tools

age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // file // find // free // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // stow // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs

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