get-sockname - Hhvm — ContextQMD

If you're integrating against watchman using the unix socket and either the JSON or BSER protocol, you may need to discover the correct socket path. Rather than hard-coding the path or replicating the logic discussed in Command Line, you can simply execute the CLI to determine the path. This has the side effect of spawning the service for your user if it was not already running--bonus!

bash

$ watchman get-sockname
{
  "version": "2.5",
  "sockname": "/tmp/.watchman.wez"
}