Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 05:36:06 +0100 (CET) From: Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no> To: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: tail Message-ID: <14964.62262.227078.687347@raw.grenland.fast.no> In-Reply-To: <01012813255100.83352@gateway.drnet.fais.net> References: <01012813255100.83352@gateway.drnet.fais.net>
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Justin W. Pauler writes: > 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 don't think there's any way of making this particular combination work :-) On the other hand, you may want to try the following in bash or sh: while true; do clear; df -h; sleep 1; done //Raymond. -- Raymond Wiker Raymond.Wiker@fast.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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