commandliners

This command executes a command in a loop with the specified delay. Useful for instance if you want to monitor the status of your machine (disk space, network status…)

$ watch -n 4 du -ch .

The command above, executes “du -ch .” every four seconds.

Note: That’s a GNU command. Under FreeBSD watch is a completely different program. In order to use the GNU watch command, you have to install the gnu-watch package.

Note 2: If you don’t like watch you can always do something like this:

$ while true; do command; sleep delay; done

but watch is shorter XD