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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 12:22:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To:        Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
Subject:   Re: watch or monitor program?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980522122211.malte@webmore.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980522185238.26532A-100000@python.shoal.net.au>

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On 22-May-98 Andrew Perry wrote:
> On bsdi I can do
> 
> watch w
> 
> and every couple of seconds it'll give me an updated display of "w".

So what exactly does it "display" when it "displays w" (content, file-attribs,
..) ???
I have no idea what the bsdi-version of watch does !!!
Be more specific about what you want to get.

Malte.

> Top doesn't do what I want here.
> 
> Andrew
>> 
>> > do we have a command like the bsdi "watch" command? (Not like our watch
>> > command) I searched the archive but most of the references were of course
>> > to our watch command which isn't what I want. I saw a reference from
>> > January 1997 where someone said we didn't have it yet but it was on his
>> > todo list and I was wondering if his todo list was anything like mine and
>> > it was still there :-)
>> > 
>> > man -k watch (on bsdi 2.1)
>> > 
>> > watch (1) - watch a program with update intervals
>> 
>> is top any help?
>> 
>> --
>> Andrew I MacIntyre                     "These thoughts are mine alone..."
>> E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au    (work) | Snail: PO Box 370
>>         andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au  (play) |        Belconnen  ACT  2616
>> Fido:   Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18        |        Australia
>> 
>> 
> 
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