Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Subject: RE: port of "watch"? Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:06:40 -0400 Message-ID: <7BFCE5F1EF28D64198522688F5449D5AC1E27B@xchangeserver2.storigen.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Scott Prive" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g97J6mf29686 Thanks -- good work Igor! I've made a sticky note to add procps to my next round of lab updates, and this script will hold me over until I do.. Cheers, Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] > Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:08 PM > To: Scott Prive > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: port of "watch"? > > > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Scott Prive wrote: > > > Is anyone aware of a port of "watch" to Cygwin? > > > > For the curious, watch is a standard (?) tool on Linux > which re-executes > > a command at 2 second intervals (configurable). > > ex: watch "ls -l" > > This is more convenient than looping code on the shell. > > > > On Linux, this is part of procps: > > [root@redhat root]# rpm --whatprovides -q `which watch` > > procps-2.0.7-21 > > > > Thanks, > > Scott > > Scott, > > There is a procps package available for Cygwin... > If you don't want to install the whole package, use the > attached script > (which took about 15 minutes to write) for similar > functionality (minus > difference highlighting). > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular > Science, Oct'02, p.51 > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/