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Anonymous
Anonymous

Reputation: 3689

Auto refresh script in command line

I'm using the command line to execute my php scripts instead of executing them in the browser, so I can look for errors a bit quicker. For browser there are some auto-refresh applications/plugins, so you don't have to hit CMD+R all the time.

For my error log I can use the tail -f command, but sure enough it doesn't execute/compile, so I can't use it for php files in the command-line.

Is there some equivalent or any work-around for compiled php-files ? Would be even greater to only output something in case of an error (native php-error like warnings, notices)!

Working on mac os/x if that's somehow helpful.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3850

Answers (3)

hakre
hakre

Reputation: 198131

You can tail -f the error log (enable PHP to log all errors, warnings, notices into a file, tail & follow it).

Also checkout notification scripts which will create a bubble if something happens, e.g. something like How to get a pop up notification of a PHP error.

Otherwise work with a terminal/shell and just press the up arrow key and you'll have the last command you can then fire-up again. Probably ctrl+r works to search the history of commands as well under OSX.

Upvotes: 2

Ikke
Ikke

Reputation: 101251

The watch command does what you want.

watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

You can do something like:

watch php myscript.php

and it would execute that command every two seconds and report it's output.

It even has flags to highlight differences from previous output.

Upvotes: 3

ajreal
ajreal

Reputation: 47321

Combine with OSX command :-

while [ 1 ]
do
   php -r THE_FILE | grep -Ei "notice|warning|error"
   sleep 5
done

Upvotes: 1

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