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Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 11:18:27 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: leifn@internet.dk, Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au>
Cc: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
        Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: watch or monitor program?
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On Tue, 26 May 1998 at  0:07:40 +0200, Leif Neland wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 1998, Andrew Perry wrote:
>
>>>
>>> So what exactly does it "display" when it "displays w" (content, file-attribs,
>>> ..) ???
>>
>> it clears the screen and gives me the output of w (you know, who's logged
>> in and what are they doing) and then it refreshes the display every 2
>> seconds (by default, you can change it to whatever you like)
>>
>
> as in
> while true
> do
>   clear
>   w
>   sleep 2
> done

Yes, except that this causes a lot of screen output, and it flashes.
The watch program is available (including binary :-) at
ftp://www.lemis.com/pub/watch.tar.gz.

Greg
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