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Sometimes, while working on the Linux command line, you might want to execute a command repeatedly so as to track any change in output. Well, you'll be happy to know there exists a command line utility that lets you do this. The tool in question is Watch, and in this tutorial, we will discuss some of its basic features using some easy to understand examples.
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By: george
If you want to watch realtime the cpu clock speed (modern cpus change cpu clock speed all the time according to workloads):
watch grep \"cpu MHz\" /proc/cpuinfo
By: Roland
This fills the typical terminal window:
alias watch-time='watch -t -n 1 "date +%A%n%D%n%Z%t%t%T|figlet -k"'
By: Hussein
I want to be able to see more lines when exacuting watch command. how can I do so?