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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:27:00 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Terry Todd <tlt@badger.tltodd.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: watch command
Message-ID:  <20020715222700.GB23294@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020715140429.A69395@badger.tltodd.com>
References:  <20020715140429.A69395@badger.tltodd.com>

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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

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