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?
Message-ID: <Mutt.19970122044556.davidn@labs.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970121090946.1413B-100000@trogon.kiwi.net>; from "Christopher H. Taylor" on Jan 21, 1997 09:10:45 -0800
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"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/
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