On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Abraham wrote:
> I am not sure I follow this discussion but 'watch' command is awesome.
>
> We all know that cp command doesn't give any feedback on how much of
> data is copied. So to see the amount of data copied while copying around
> 45 GB of data, I used watc
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:30:52 +0530, Abraham wrote:
> I am not sure I follow this discussion but 'watch' command is awesome.
>
watch is no new command. It is a unix command in existance for a long
time. I dont understand how a age old command become awesome suddenly.
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I am not sure I follow this discussion but 'watch' command is awesome.
We all know that cp command doesn't give any feedback on how much of
data is copied. So to see the amount of data copied while copying around
45 GB of data, I used watch.
$watch du -s -BM 'target-file'
This monitored the file
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Guruprasad wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
>> wrote:
>> > You have watch command.
>> >
>> > $ watch ls -ltr
>> >
>> > or you can get a clock with watch.
>> >
>> > Ju
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Guruprasad wrote:
>
> Hi Girish,
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
> wrote:
> > You have watch command.
> >
> > $ watch ls -ltr
> >
> > or you can get a clock with watch.
> >
> > Just think...
>
> Doesn't this list the contents of a directo
Hi Girish,
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
wrote:
> You have watch command.
>
> $ watch ls -ltr
>
> or you can get a clock with watch.
>
> Just think...
Doesn't this list the contents of a directory ordered by modified time
in reverse order? But the subject says "watch a pr
