From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 09:46:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA02064 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:46:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA02047 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:46:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA02421; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 04:45:57 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 04:45:56 +1100 From: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net ("Christopher H. Taylor") Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: watch command? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.56 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from "Christopher H. Taylor" on Jan 21, 1997 09:10:45 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Christopher H. Taylor" writes: > Is there a command equivalent to the Linux 'watch' command, > that will poll a particular command every n seconds. Such as > top polls system resources. No. systat(1) offers similar functionality but doesn't offer running external programs as an option, only a limited set of internal functions. Writing something similar to 'watch' (that is, the "Linux" watch, not the FreeBSD watch which is something completely different :-)) has been on my "todo" list for some time. I quite liked being able to run it in an xterm and keep an eye on, say 'w' and tail -f on one or more logfiles all in the same window. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/