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Artem Russakovskii
Asked: 2010-03-18 15:09:41 +0800 CST

GNU watch - how do I make it read my environment (aliases, functions, etc)

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This one has been bugging me for a while: I want to use the marvelous GNU watch command to run a few custom aliases and functions that are defined in my .bashrc, but it is never able to run anything except bash built-ins or binaries.

watch -d foo

The output is always: foo: command not found

How can I make it inherit my environment or use the .bashrc?

Thank you.

linux env watch gnu

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Do something like this watch bash -i -c 'alias -p' this should call bash, load your settings and then run whatever command you have after the -c

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  2. From man watch:

    Note that command is given to "sh -c"

    So it's not going to see your Bash aliases and functions.

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