Thanks -- good work Igor! I've made a sticky note to add procps to my next round of lab updates, and this script will hold me over until I do..
Cheers, Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:08 PM > To: Scott Prive > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: port of "watch"? > > > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Scott Prive wrote: > > > Is anyone aware of a port of "watch" to Cygwin? > > > > For the curious, watch is a standard (?) tool on Linux > which re-executes > > a command at 2 second intervals (configurable). > > ex: watch "ls -l" > > This is more convenient than looping code on the shell. > > > > On Linux, this is part of procps: > > [root@redhat root]# rpm --whatprovides -q `which watch` > > procps-2.0.7-21 > > > > Thanks, > > Scott > > Scott, > > There is a procps package available for Cygwin... > If you don't want to install the whole package, use the > attached script > (which took about 15 minutes to write) for similar > functionality (minus > difference highlighting). > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular > Science, Oct'02, p.51 > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
