Utility to continuously monitor an arbitrary command

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I seem to recall there exists a small UNIX tool to repeatedly execute and display the output of another command at a given interval.

Kind of like "top" works by default but then for any other command.

Does anybody know such utility?

Sarah · Answer 1 · 2010-03-18 12:10:48Z

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What you're looking for is 'watch'

answered Mar 18 '10 at 12:10

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Thanks! That was what I was looking for. – Tomas Mar 18 '10 at 12:17

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