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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Scott Prive wrote: > Is anyone aware of a port of "watch" to Cygwin? > > For the curious, watch is a standard (?) tool on Linux which re-executes > a command at 2 second intervals (configurable). > ex: watch "ls -l" > This is more convenient than looping code on the shell. > > On Linux, this is part of procps: > [root@redhat root]# rpm --whatprovides -q `which watch` > procps-2.0.7-21 > > Thanks, > Scott Scott, There is a procps package available for Cygwin... If you don't want to install the whole package, use the attached script (which took about 15 minutes to write) for similar functionality (minus difference highlighting). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51
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