Repeatedly execute a bash command and observe its output

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You can have a command repeatedly executed and the output displayed. This is useful e.g. for monitoring file system changes with ls, but has many more applications.
The update frequency is controlled by the -n argument (default: 2s), which is locale-specific; i.e. you might need to use a comma as delimiter.

  > watch -n 1.5 ls
Dominik Schöler
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Henning Koch
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Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2016-10-25 11:15)