Encontré este hilo titulado: Bug # 225549: have watch monitor stderr . Ese hilo es de 2008, pero parece que las versiones anteriores no admiten la visualización de otra cosa que no sea STDOUT.
Por lo tanto, estamos limitados a STDOUT. En cuanto a lo visible, hay mucho lenguaje en el info watch
y man watch
eso me hace pensar que su observación / suposición es correcta.
extracto
watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screen‐
full). This allows you to watch the program output change over time.
By default, the program is run every 2 seconds; use -n or --interval to
specify a different interval.
También este bit bajo BUGS:
BUGS
Upon terminal resize, the screen will not be correctly repainted until
the next scheduled update. All --differences highlighting is lost on
that update as well.
Si tuviera que adivinar, pensaría que estaban almacenando los bits visibles en un búfer entre ejecuciones y luego analizando solo esos caracteres.
EDITAR # 1
Lo depuré más usando strace
y puede ver la watch
lectura del resultado del ls
comando, por lo que internamente se descarta el cambio.
antes de eliminar el m
archivo
$ strace -o w.log watch -g 'ls -1'
read(3, "a\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\ng\nh\ni\nj\nk\nl\nm\nn\nw.lo"..., 4096) = 34
close(3) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
munmap(0x7f4da83af000, 4096) = 0
wait4(31011, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 31011
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_IGN, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, {0x7f4da7f81ee0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, 8) = 0
write(1, "\33[H\33[2JEvery 2.0s: ls -1\33[1;140H"..., 119) = 119
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {0x7f4da7f81ee0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({2, 0}, NULL) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
pipe([3, 4]) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f4da839f9d0) = 31014
close(4) = 0
fcntl(3, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4da83af000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
read(3, "a\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\ng\nh\ni\nj\nk\nl\nm\nn\nw.lo"..., 4096) = 34
close(3) = 0
munmap(0x7f4da83af000, 4096) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
después de m
eliminar el archivo
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_IGN, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, {0x7f4da7f81ee0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, 8) = 0
poll([{fd=0, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
poll([{fd=0, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
write(1, "\33[1;158H8\33[11;163H", 18) = 18
rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {0x7f4da7f81ee0, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x7f4da79b94a0}, NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({2, 0}, NULL) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3519, ...}) = 0
pipe([3, 4]) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f4da839f9d0) = 31028
close(4) = 0
fcntl(3, F_GETFL) = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f4da83af000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
read(3, "a\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\ng\nh\ni\nj\nk\nl\nn\nw.log\n", 4096) = 32
close(3) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
munmap(0x7f4da83af000, 4096) = 0
wait4(31028, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 31028
-g
opción dewatch
hacer? No lo encuentro en mi versión dewatch