Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 17:51:38 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linux command 'watch' Message-ID: <CAGwOe2bx673Bw4zzf6t8VdH-2Ph-0gUu06eyoHKYGs0Gf05PJQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200526144217.GB7556@sh4-5.1blu.de> References: <20200526144217.GB7556@sh4-5.1blu.de>
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On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:42 PM Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > > > Hello, > > On my Ubuntu mobile phone I'm used to use a command 'watch' in its > terminal app in this way, for example: > > $ watch -n 1 date > > This does every second: clears the screen, launches date and prints its > STDOUT into the terminal. Due to the clear of the screen, the output of > date stays in the same position and only the part of the seconds is count= ing > upwards. I got to know and to use it, because the Ubuntu phone lacks a > digital clock app showing the seconds. > > The FreeBSD watch(1) command does other things, nothing todo with the abo= ve. > > Do we have something similar? Ofc I could write this as a shell loop, so > please don't give me such hints :-) /usr/ports/misc/gnu-watch Cheers > > matthias > > -- > Matthias Apitz, =E2=9C=89 guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-1= 76-38902045 > Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub > May, 9: =D0=A1=D0=BF=D0=B0=D1=81=D0=B8=CC=81=D0=B1=D0=BE =D0=BE=D1=81=D0= =B2=D0=BE=D0=B1=D0=BE=D0=B4=D0=B8=D1=82=D0=B5=D0=BB=D0=B8! Thank you very m= uch, Russian liberators! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg"
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