---
name: "watchgod"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python3-watchgod"
version: "0.8.2-2"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/watchgod"
---

# watchgod(1)

Watch a directory and execute a python function on changes

## NAME

daphne — Watch a directory and execute a python function on changes

## SYNOPSIS

**daphne** \[**--help**\]  \[**--verbosity** *LEVEL\]  \[function\]  \[***path***\]  \[***--args** *ARGUMENTS\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **daphne** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

**daphne** is a program that watches a  directory and executes a python function on changes.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,  with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').  A summary of  options is included below.

- **--help**

  Show help message and exit.

- **--verbosity** *LEVEL*

  Set output verbosity level to 0, 1 (default) or 2.

- **-a** *ARGUMENTS* **--args** *ARGUMENTS*

  Arguments for argparser inside executed function. Ex.: module.func path --args --inner arg -v.

## ARGUMENTS

- function

  Path to python function to execute.

- path

  Filesystem path to watch, defaults to current directory.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by fladi fladi@debian.org for  the **Debian** system (and may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any  later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.