dr_watch(1)

💖 dr_watch — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found a USER COMMANDS page and it's dr_watch(1), and honestly? she's that girl. let me tell you everything 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

dr_watch — runs a program on a lil loop and shows you the output fullscreen 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dr_watch command

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so dr_watch is basically doing the same thing as watch(1): it runs command over and over and over, showing you the output each time. main character behaviour, fr fr. 💅

by default it runs sleep 2 before it refreshes the program's output, so it's acting exactly like watch does. no cap.

BUT. and this is the part where she ate 💅 — unlike watch, she can refresh the screen when some external command exits. that command gets passed in through the DR_SLEEP_CMD environment variable. obsessed. 🔥

and if DR_NICE_WATCH is set to "false", she'll check whether watch(1) is even available on your system, and if she finds it, she just runs it. lowkey handing the aux cord over. 🙈

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🎀 ENVIRONMENT 🎀

• DR_SLEEP — an integer, bestie: the number of seconds to wait between each execution. ⏳
• DR_SLEEP_CMD — like 'sleep 5' or 'mpc idle'. this is the external command whose exit triggers a screen refresh. ✨
• DR_NICE_WATCH — set it to "false" if you'd rather have the traditional watch than this reimplementation of ours. no judgement 🫶

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 👑

this manpage is copyright 2009, 2011, 2012, 2018 Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx>. 💖

Draai is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation — either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. slay.

⚠️ This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. like, none. zero. nada. 😭

you should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with draai. if you didn't, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. go get it bestie 🏃‍♀️💨

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-draai@mdcc.cx> — iconic, we stan 💜

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and that's the whole vibe check ✅ — this page came from dr_watch 20201215, dated 15 дец 2020, and it's giving dr_watch(1) energy forever. bye bestie, go watch something 👋💖