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Subject: RE: port of "watch"?
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 15:06:40 -0400
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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 AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:08 PM
> To: Scott Prive
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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 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
> -- 
> 				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
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> ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
>      |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski
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> 
> "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular 
> Science, Oct'02, p.51
> 

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