Linux command 'watch'

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:42 PM Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> On my Ubuntu mobile phone I'm used to use a command 'watch' in its
> terminal app in this way, for example:
>
> $ watch -n 1 date
>
> This does every second: clears the screen, launches date and prints its
> STDOUT into the terminal. Due to the clear of the screen, the output of
> date stays in the same position and only the part of the seconds is counting
> upwards. I got to know and to use it, because the Ubuntu phone lacks a
> digital clock app showing the seconds.
>
> The FreeBSD watch(1) command does other things, nothing todo with the above.
>
> Do we have something similar? Ofc I could write this as a shell loop, so
> please don't give me such hints :-)

/usr/ports/misc/gnu-watch

Cheers

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