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Rajesh Chaudhary
Asked: 2020-12-10 06:59:33 +0800 CST

"watch" command doesn't work on alias

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watch command doesn't work for alias commands.

without alias

➜  scrcpy git:(master) git -P branch
* master
➜  scrcpy git:(master) watch git branch

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with alias

➜  scrcpy git:(master) which gb
gb: aliased to git branch
➜  scrcpy git:(master) watch gb

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alias 20.04 watch-command

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You will need to alias watch as well for this to work. It needs space around the command, i.e. alias watch='watch ' and after the space it is expecting the next part to be an alias as well.

    So, we will create an alias with the -n in it as well. Since you are doing every 2 seconds create a new alias to watch every 2 seconds.

    alias watch-2='watch -n 2 '

    Then you would just run it as

    watch-2 gb

    Hope this helps!

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