[ILUG] handy proggie of the day: watch

From: Stephen Shirley (diamond at domain skynet.ie)
Date: Thu 14 Jun 2001 - 12:23:40 IST

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Mornin,
        Today I came across the watch command. It allows you to "execute a
program periodically, showing output fullscreen." A very useful example
use from the man page is "watch uname -r" when you're waiting for an admin
to install the latest kernel.

Steve

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"My mom had Windows at work and it hurt her eyes real bad"

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