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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:07:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Scott Prive <Scott DOT Prive AT storigen DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: port of "watch"?
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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 AT 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
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