Watch is a command on Linux that will repeatedly run commands for you, and it offers some very useful options. One of its basic options is that you can tell watch how long to wait before running ...

Rounding out my wish list is the simple but powerful watch command. In Linux, it runs a command at regular intervals, by default, every two seconds, and updates the display with the latest output.

Some very useful Linux commands for making life on the command line more rewarding ...

To see the interrupts occurring on your system, run the command: # watch -n1 "cat /proc/interrupts" CPU0 CPU1 0: 330 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 11336 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge 6: 3 0 ...

The UNIX Way™ is to cobble together different, single-purpose programs to get the effect you want, for instance in a Bash script that you run by typing its name into the command line. But ...