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.TH "GUARD" "1" "September 2011" "" ""
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.SH "NAME"
\fBguard\fR \- Guard keeps an eye on your file modifications\.
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
Guard is a command line tool that easily handle events on files modifications\.
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.SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fBguard <COMMAND> <OPTIONS>\fR
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.SH "COMMANDS"
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.SS "start"
Starts Guard\. This is the default command if none is provided\.
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The following options are available:
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\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-clear\fR Clears the Shell after each change\.
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\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-notify\fR \fIFLAG\fR 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 \fBtrue\fR/\fBfalse\fR or \fBt\fR/\fBf\fR\.
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\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-debug\fR Runs Guard in debug mode\.
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\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-group\fR \fIGROUP1\fR \fIGROUP2\fR\.\.\. 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\.
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\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-watchdir\fR \fIPATH\fR
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.P
Tells Guard to watch PATH instead of \fB\./\fR\.
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\fB\-G\fR, \fB\-\-guardfile\fR \fIFILE\fR Tells Guard to use FILE as its Guardfile instead of \fB\./Guardfile\fR or \fB~/\.Guardfile\fR\.
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.SS "init <a href=\"guard\.html\">GUARD</a>"
If no Guardfile is present in the current directory, creates an empty Guardfile\.
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.P
If \fIGUARD\fR is present, add its default Guardfile configuration to the current Guardfile\. Note that \fIGUARD\fR is the guard\'s name without the \fBguard\-\fR prefix\. For instance to initialize guard\-rspec, run \fBguard init rspec\fR\.
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.SS "list"
Lists guards that can be used with the \fBinit\fR command\.
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.SS "\-T, show"
List defined groups and guards for the current Guardfile\.
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.SS "\-h, help [COMMAND]"
List all of Guard\'s available commands\.
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If \fICOMMAND\fR is given, displays a specific help for \fITASK\fR\.
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.SH "EXAMPLES"
Initialize Guard and a specific guard at the same time:
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\fB[bundle exec] guard init [rspec]\fR
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Run Guard:
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\fB[bundle exec] guard [start] \-\-watchdir ~/dev \-\-guardfile ~/env/Guardfile \-\-clear \-\-group backend frontend \-\-notify false \-\-debug\fR
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or in a more concise way:
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\fB[bundle exec] guard [start] \-w ~/dev \-G ~/env/Guardfile \-c \-g backend frontend \-n f \-d\fR
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.SH "AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS"
Thibaud Guillaume\-Gentil is the main author\.
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A list of contributors based on all commits can be found here: https://github\.com/guard/guard/contributors
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For an exhaustive list of all the contributors, please see the CHANGELOG: https://github\.com/guard/guard/blob/master/CHANGELOG\.md
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This manual has been written by Remy Coutable\.
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.SH "WWW"
https://github\.com/guard/guard