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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: watch

This article spotlights alternatives tools to watch. The software featured here is free and open source goodness.

rwatch is a command-line utility written in Rust that allows you to run a command repeatedly and watch its output.

reflex is a small tool to watch a directory and rerun a command when certain files change.

wfh continuously watches your local directories and rsync them against a remote host.

watchexec is a simple, standalone tool that watches a path and runs a command whenever it detects modifications.

watcher is a simple command line app to watch files in a directory for changes.

chokidar is a cross-platform command line utility to watch file system changes.

viddy is a modern watch command. It features in our Top 100 CLI apps. viddy is written in the Go programming language.

neowatch is a modern alternative to the watch command. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust language.

hwatch is a modern alternative to watch. It records the differences in execution results and can check the differences afterwards.