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This looks same as the older "watch" command that I use once in a while. From the man page. "watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen"
by vishnugupta 5y ago
This looks same as the older "watch" command that I use once in a while.
From the man page. "watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen".
I use it as "watch -5 -d <command>". "-5" is to run the "command" every 5 seconds and "-d" is to highlight the difference from the previous output.
- kazinator 4y agoThe "Watch" part of the name is inspired by the watch command. Something is being periodically redisplayed, namely the contents of a FIFO buffer of lines of text.