The Watch for Linux commands

Watch can help you monitor the execution of a command, which saves you from doing it over and over again. Under Linux. Watch is the periodic execution of the next procedure. and displays the execution results in full screen. You can use him to monitor everything you want. The result of the command changes, such as tail a log file, ls to monitor a file size change.

Command format

Watch [Options] Command

Explanation of the parameters:

Options: Option-N or--interval  watch defaults to execute the program every 2 seconds, allowing you to specify the time of the interval with-N or-interval. -D or--differences  use the-D or--differences option Watch to highlight the changed area. The-d=cumulative option highlights the places that have changed (whether or not the recent changes have been made). The-T or-no-title  will turn off the watch command at the top of the interval, command, output of the current time. -H,--help view the commands for the Help document Command:shell (for example, LS pwd)

The Watch for Linux commands