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  <h2 id="NAME">NAME</h2>
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  <code>guard</code> - <span class="man-whatis">Guard keeps an eye on your file modifications.</span>
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<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>

<p>Guard is a command line tool that easily handle events on files modifications.</p>

<h2 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h2>

<p><code>guard &lt;COMMAND> &lt;OPTIONS></code></p>

<h2 id="COMMANDS">COMMANDS</h2>

<h3 id="start">start</h3>

<p>Starts Guard. This is the default command if none is provided.</p>

<p>The following options are available:</p>

<p><code>-c</code>, <code>--clear</code>
  Clears the Shell after each change.</p>

<p><code>-n</code>, <code>--notify</code> <var>FLAG</var>
  Disable notifications (Growl or Libnotify depending on your system).
  Notifications can be disabled globally by setting a GUARD_NOTIFY environment variable to false.
  FLAG can be <code>true</code>/<code>false</code> or <code>t</code>/<code>f</code>.</p>

<p><code>-d</code>, <code>--debug</code>
  Runs Guard in debug mode.</p>

<p><code>-g</code>, <code>--group</code> <var>GROUP1</var> <var>GROUP2</var>...
  Runs only the groups specified by GROUP1, GROUP2 etc.
  Groups name should be separated by spaces.
  Guards that don't belong to a group are considered global and are always run.</p>

<p><code>-w</code>, <code>--watchdir</code> <var>PATH</var></p>

<p>Tells Guard to watch PATH instead of <code>./</code>.</p>

<p><code>-G</code>, <code>--guardfile</code> <var>FILE</var>
  Tells Guard to use FILE as its Guardfile instead of <code>./Guardfile</code> or <code>~/.Guardfile</code>.</p>

<h3 id="init-GUARD-">init [GUARD]</h3>

<p>If no Guardfile is present in the current directory, creates an empty Guardfile.</p>

<p>If <var>GUARD</var> is present, add its default Guardfile configuration to the current Guardfile.
Note that <var>GUARD</var> is the guard's name without the <code>guard-</code> prefix.
For instance to initialize guard-rspec, run <code>guard init rspec</code>.</p>

<h3 id="list">list</h3>

<p>Lists guards that can be used with the <code>init</code> command.</p>

<h3 id="-T-show">-T, show</h3>

<p>List defined groups and guards for the current Guardfile.</p>

<h3 id="-h-help-COMMAND-">-h, help [COMMAND]</h3>

<p>List all of Guard's available commands.</p>

<p>If <var>COMMAND</var> is given, displays a specific help for <var>TASK</var>.</p>

<h2 id="EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</h2>

<p>Initialize Guard and a specific guard at the same time:</p>

<p><code>[bundle exec] guard init [rspec]</code></p>

<p>Run Guard:</p>

<p><code>[bundle exec] guard [start] --watchdir ~/dev --guardfile ~/env/Guardfile --clear --group backend frontend --notify false --debug</code></p>

<p>or in a more concise way:</p>

<p><code>[bundle exec] guard [start] -w ~/dev -G ~/env/Guardfile -c -g backend frontend -n f -d</code></p>

<h2 id="AUTHORS-CONTRIBUTORS">AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS</h2>

<p>Thibaud Guillaume-Gentil is the main author.</p>

<p>A list of contributors based on all commits can be found here:
https://github.com/guard/guard/contributors</p>

<p>For an exhaustive list of all the contributors, please see the CHANGELOG:
https://github.com/guard/guard/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md</p>

<p>This manual has been written by Remy Coutable.</p>

<h2 id="WWW">WWW</h2>

<p>https://github.com/guard/guard</p>


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