Linux Watch vs BSD Watch

blueCow · 02-19-2005, 01:49 PM

Is there a command in FreeBSD that will accomplish the same thing as the linux command watch.

For those of you wo may not know what each command does:

watch (BSD) - snoops a given tty
watch (Linux) - makes a static command like 'ps' or 'who' able to update in realtime.

Thanks.

Clark Bent · 02-19-2005, 07:04 PM

I am not familar with that program...but perhaps you will find this useful:

$ whereis watch
watch: /usr/sbin/watch /usr/share/man/man8/watch.8.gz /usr/src/usr.sbin/watch

mj2000 · 08-12-2009, 02:17 AM

its called cmdwatch on FreeBSD.
use whereis cmdwatch to find the ports directory

uselpa · 08-16-2009, 03:30 AM

or gnuwatch on OpenBSD

anomie · 08-16-2009, 05:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blueCow

Is there a command in FreeBSD that will accomplish the same thing as the linux command watch.

To be honest, on non-Linux operating systems (e.g. FreeBSD, Solaris), I simply use the following from a Bourne-type shell:

Code:

while true ; do clear ; <foo command here> ; sleep 5 ; done