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Ihsan Dogan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Am 13.3.2007 21:16 Uhr, Luke Scharf schrieb:
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<pre wrap="">Has anyone considered including watch (included in the procps packaged
on Redhat-ish distributions) in pkg-get?
It's one of my favorite trivialities... :-)
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What exactly is "watch"?
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It's a program that will run a command repeatedly, displaying the
command on the screen. For example:<br>
watch -n 2 'gls -lh $HOME/download'<br>
This will run "gls -lh $HOME/download" every two seconds and display
the results on the screen in a cleanish way.<br>
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I wouldn't want to use it to run 'rm -rf' -- but it really is nice for
watching large downloads, RAID rebuilds, zpool scrubs, df, and suchlike.<br>
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I'll be happy to contribute some work for this package, but I'm not
quite sure where to start -- or if this really belongs in another
package. (I'm C/C++/make/scripting and Unix literate, but I haven't
contributed packages to a group like this before.)<br>
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-Luke<br>
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