Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 16:42:17 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Linux command 'watch' Message-ID: <20200526144217.GB7556@sh4-5.1blu.de>
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Hello, On my Ubuntu mobile phone I'm used to use a command 'watch' in its terminal app in this way, for example: $ watch -n 1 date This does every second: clears the screen, launches date and prints its STDOUT into the terminal. Due to the clear of the screen, the output of date stays in the same position and only the part of the seconds is counting upwards. I got to know and to use it, because the Ubuntu phone lacks a digital clock app showing the seconds. The FreeBSD watch(1) command does other things, nothing todo with the above. Do we have something similar? Ofc I could write this as a shell loop, so please don't give me such hints :-) matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub May, 9: Спаси́бо освободители! Thank you very much, Russian liberators!
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