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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2007 18:52:22 +1100
From:      Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>
To:        C Thala <cthala@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: need Linux help (watch and LVS)
Message-ID:  <E3BD02F4-6CB9-4B43-ACE1-44D672D554F1@brooknet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <77647f500711032033i2ffbd581w89d540728e91fbcb@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <77647f500711032033i2ffbd581w89d540728e91fbcb@mail.gmail.com>

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On 04/11/2007, at 2:33 PM, C Thala wrote:

> Can someone tell me the FreeBSD equivalent of the Linux command  
> "watch".
>
> In Linux, watch is like top, but you can run it against any command
> and have it refresh every N seconds. There is a watch command in
> FreeBSD but it does something else entirely.

You can do this using a simple shell loop.  If you really need the  
GNU watch command it is available in ports as "gnu-watch".

Have a nice day
Sam



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