4 ms·This would've been better as a simple link to a man page, I think.by djacobs 16y agoThis would've been better as a simple link to a man page, I think.hugh3 16y agoI think the article does a better job of explaining why you might want to use watch than man watch does.djacobs 16y agoReally? What part of the article was more useful than the man page? diff the-article the-man-page | wc -w => 75hugh3 16y agoWell then, I guess it must be the 75 words.djacobs 16y agoThe summary of those 75 words is "I want to watch for file changes but am too lazy to write a Perl script. Look at this. `man watch`" I guess we just disagree about what part of the post is useful.