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RE: port of "watch"?
- From: "Scott Prive" <Scott dot Prive at storigen dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:06:40 -0400
- Subject: RE: port of "watch"?
Thanks -- good work Igor!
I've made a sticky note to add procps to my next round of lab updates, and this script will hold me over until I do..
Cheers,
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:08 PM
> To: Scott Prive
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: port of "watch"?
>
>
> 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
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