Friday, 28 May 2010

watch command in cygwin

it is in "procps" package
some common tools, like top, watch, procps, uptime and more

also read this (shell script to create watch() function)
http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3113/for-all-who-dont-have-the-watch-command

M1:
watch() { while test :; do clear; date=$(date); echo -e "Every "$1"s: $2 \t\t\t\t $date"; $2; sleep $1; done }

M2:
watch() { t=$1; shift; while test :; do clear; date=$(date); echo -e "Every "$t"s: $@ \t\t\t\t $date"; $@; sleep $t; done }

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