From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 15:27: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3896037B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:27:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5E943E42 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6FMR0hB054859; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:27:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:27:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Terry Todd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: watch command Message-ID: <20020715222700.GB23294@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020715140429.A69395@badger.tltodd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020715140429.A69395@badger.tltodd.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 15), Terry Todd said: > > Is there a FreeBSD command that works like the Linux watch command? > > ------- > WATCH(1) Linux User's Manual WATCH(1) > > NAME > watch - execute a program periodically, showing output > fullscreen You can try ports/misc/display, or a loop like "while sleep 1 ; do cls ; mycommand ; done" -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message