Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:06:21 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <3A747BBD.35AA7F72@math.missouri.edu> References: <01012813255100.83352@gateway.drnet.fais.net>
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What I do (this is using the csh or tcsh shell): while 1 echo "" df sleep 1 end "Justin W. Pauler" wrote: > > I am not sure if this is a command, but if not, I think it would be useful. I > have often needed to watch output from different commands like df, but I have > to continously run the command to get the latest amount. I was thinking, why > couldn't tail do that? Since it can watch files for changes and display > those, why not for a command? > > I tried tail -f |df -h and could not get it to update. I would appreciate > your thoughts. > > I am also cc'ing this to stable in cause it is a bug/feature... > > -jwp > > -- > Justin W. Pauler > FlexiShell Internet Services <http://www.flexishell.com>; > E-Mail: jwpauler@jwpages.com > WWW: http://www.jwpages.com > IRC: drnet@#EggDrop, Undernet IRC Network > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > One seldom sees a monument to a committee. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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