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has caused the Debian Bug report #184348,
regarding procps: setting COLUMNS messes up watch -d
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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.1.5-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/watch
Tags: upstream
Please try
$ COLUMNS=33 watch -d cat /etc/motd
or
$ COLUMNS=$((${COLUMNS?}-10)) watch -d "cat /etc/motd"
Do you see most of the output stays highlighted even though it doesn't change?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.20-k7 #1 Tue Jan 14 00:29:06 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.3.20021109-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
-- no debconf information
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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.6-1
I believe version 3.2.6 of procps fixed this rather ancient bug.
Certainly your test cases work fine now.
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