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On 26/05/2020 16:51, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> The FreeBSD watch(1) command does other things, nothing todo with the above.
>>
>> 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

Or sysutils/cmdwatch

Not entirely sure of the point in having two fairly small utilities to 
do exactly the same thing.

	Cheers,

	Matthew