watch is one of the great unsung heroes of unix tools. Discovering it was one of...

pimlottc on March 31, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stop using tail -f (mostly)

watch is one of the great unsung heroes of unix tools. Discovering it was one of those "I wish I knew about this years ago" moments. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have spread much beyond GNU/Linux platforms.