[csw-users] watch?

[Dennis Clarke]

> Ihsan Dogan wrote:
>> Am 13.3.2007 21:16 Uhr, Luke Scharf schrieb:
>>
>>
>>> Has anyone considered including watch (included in the procps packaged
>>> on Redhat-ish distributions) in pkg-get?
>>>
>>> It's one of my favorite trivialities...  :-)
>>>
>>
>> What exactly is "watch"?
>>
>
> It's a program that will run a command repeatedly, displaying the
> command on the screen.  For example:
>     watch -n 2 'gls -lh $HOME/download'
> This will run "gls -lh $HOME/download" every two seconds and display the
> results on the screen in a cleanish way.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.)

I like it.

Where is the source ?  On the RHEL5 source CD ISO images or somewhere ?

Dennis