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From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
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What I do (this is using the csh or tcsh shell):

while 1
echo ""
df
sleep 1
end


"Justin W. Pauler" wrote:
> 
> I am not sure if this is a command, but if not, I think it would be useful. I
> have often needed to watch output from different commands like df, but I have
> to continously run the command to get the latest amount. I was thinking, why
> couldn't tail do that? Since it can watch files for changes and display
> those, why not for a command?
> 
> I tried tail -f |df -h and could not get it to update. I would appreciate
> your thoughts.
> 
> I am also cc'ing this to stable in cause it is a bug/feature...
> 
> -jwp
> 
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