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Linux watch command: “--differences” not working
I would like to use the linux watch command and have seen that there may be a "culmulative" (--differences=) parameter but this doesnt appear to be working.
Basically I would like to do the following ...
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Continuously check netstat output for a particular program
I have a android emulator running on port 5554. I want to continuously watch the netstat output concerning emulator stuff.
Right now I have to manually execute this command every time
sudo netstat ...
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How do I use the watch and jobs commands together in Bash?
How do I use the watch command with jobs command, so that I can monitor when a background job is finished?
I execute it as follows, but I do not get the output from jobs:
watch jobs
If I run jobs ...
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Is there a linux command that lets me color-code the result of another command?
I'm running a watch on a command to monitor the number of open connections for a service we're diagnosing. I need to keep an eye on it while doing other work, to help other developers identify when ...
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Run two watch commands simultaneously
I want to run two executables in the foreground by typing one line of code or running a shell script. These executables watch a directory and recompile some code while outputting their status to ...
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Watch folder and upload to an FTP server
I'm searching for some software that watches a folder and when you change a file it automatically uploads it. I don't like programs that mount a remote dir as a local folder, since they are really ...
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How can I get gnu watch to run in the background?
If I start a watch command in the background, it stops. Bringing the job to the foreground makes it run again, but I want this to run in the background.
$ watch ./do-something.sh &
[1] 97673
[1]+ ...
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Store the output of date and watch command to a file
I am a newbie to linux and I am trying to watch a command and try to log it into a file. I tried
watch -t -n 10 "(date '+TIME:%H:%M:%S'
; ps aux | grep "pattern" | wc -l)" >>
logfile
and am ...
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Changing terminal size affects the output of grep inside a watch command
If I run a command like:
watch "ps -ef | grep '^foo.*bar'"
and the matching output line of ps -ef is a long line like
foo <lots and lots of text here> bar
whether this line is output is ...
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Using the watch command with an argument that contains quotes
I'm trying to get watch to work correct with commands that contain quotes, and the watch man page isn't very detailed about how quotes work. To give a concrete example, how can I run the following ...
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How can I fix a problem with standard error screwing up the output of watch?
Specifically, I am trying to run the following command on both CentOS and Fedora14 (same issue with both)
watch sudo jmap -heap 31945
However, there are a few lines of standard error that screw up ...
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Command-line tool to measure how fast a file is growing?
Is there a command-line tool to measure how fast a text file is growing, in units of lines/second?
For small-ish files, I can do something with watch and wc -l, but that measures the file anew each ...
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Using watch with pipes
I'd like to run this command:
watch -n 1 tail -n 200 log/site_dev.log | grep Doctrine
But it does not run, because "I think" that the grep tries to run on the watch instead of the tail...
Is there ...
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bash watch command with colors preserved
From man watch:
Non-printing characters are stripped
from program output. Use "cat -v" as
part of the command pipeline if you
want to see them.
So how do I use cat -v if I want to see the ...
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TV Tuner to record / show multiple channels at the same time
I need a cheap mode to record / watch multiple TV channel at the same time on a single PC.
Can anyone recommend me any solution(TV Tuner, Application) that can help me solve this problem?
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How to block website from reading my IP?
I want to watch videos on a website but I can only access my country's version. Whenever I type in say .ca (Canada) instead of .il (Israel), I get redirected to .il.
How can I surpass that?
