Modern watch command.

Viddy well, gopher. Viddy well.

Viddy was originally a program written in Go, but starting from version 1.0.0, it is being reimplemented in Rust. For more details, please see the announcement. We are currently distributing a release candidate (RC) version of v1.0.0.

Since the build methods will change for each package management system, please take note and make the necessary adjustments.

We would greatly appreciate it if as many people as possible could test the RC version. If you are willing to help, we would be very grateful if you could install and test the RC version. Please refer to the RC installation section for details.

If you find any bugs or areas for improvement, feel free to submit an issue.

• 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.
• Look back history.
  • Save and load history.
• See output in pager.
• Vim like keymaps.
• Search text.
• Suspend and restart execution.
• Support shell alias
  • See detail #2 (comment)
• Customize keymappings.
• Customize color.

brew install viddy

sudo port install viddy

To install Viddy on Windows, first install the Scoop package manager, and then run the commands below.

NOTE: The git package is required in order to add additional Scoop "buckets".

scoop install git
scoop bucket add extras
scoop install extras/viddy

wget -O viddy.tar.gz https://github.com/sachaos/viddy/releases/download/v0.4.0/viddy_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz && tar xvf viddy.tar.gz && mv viddy /usr/local/bin

yay -S viddy

Alternatively you can use the AUR Git repo directly

After enabling the community repository:

apk add viddy

asdf plugin add viddy
asdf install viddy latest
asdf global viddy latest

Download from release page.

brew install sachaos/tap/viddy-rc

wget -O viddy.tar.gz https://github.com/sachaos/viddy/releases/download/v1.0.0-rc.2/viddy-v1.0.0-rc.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && tar xvf viddy.tar.gz && mv viddy /usr/local/bin

Download from release page.

Viddy can be used without any configuration. However, if you want to customize the keybindings or default behavior, you can do so.

Install your config file on $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/viddy.toml On macOS, the path is ~/Library/Application\ Support/viddy.toml.

[general]
no_shell = false
shell = "zsh"
shell_options = ""
skip_empty_diffs = false

[keymap]
timemachine_go_to_past = "Down"
timemachine_go_to_more_past = "Shift-Down"
timemachine_go_to_future = "Up"
timemachine_go_to_more_future = "Shift-Up"
timemachine_go_to_now = "Ctrl-Shift-Up"
timemachine_go_to_oldest = "Ctrl-Shift-Down"

[color]
background = "white" # Default value is inherit from terminal color.

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

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.