watch was my first choice over the bash one-liner, but its not available to me on the Solaris boxes that I'm watching.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Evan Gates <evan.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> At work, I typically have a terminal doing something like "while true; >> do ls -l /var/cores && sleep 10 && clear; done", and it bugs me that >> I'm taking up so much screen space with things like that when all I >> need to be able to see is whether or not there are any files being >> created there. > > watch(1) > > -emg >
