Watch is a command on Linux that will repeatedly run commands for you, and it offers some very useful options. One of its basic options is that you can tell watch how long to wait before running ...

The watch and tail commands can help monitor activity on Linux systems. This post looks at some helpful ways to use these commands.

In this Linux tip, we will try out the watch command. It’s a command that will run repeatedly, overwriting its previous output until you stop it with a ^c (Ctrl + “c”) command. It can be ...

Rounding out my wish list is the simple but powerful watch command. In Linux, it runs a command at regular intervals, by default, every two seconds, and updates the display with the latest output.

The UNIX Way™ is to cobble together different, single-purpose programs to get the effect you want, for instance in a Bash script that you run by typing its name into the command line. But ...