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Commands using watch

Terminal - Commands using watch - 109 results

watch 'ls -tr1 | tail -n1 | xargs tail'

2013-05-09 11:37:59

User: batandwa

Functions: tail watch xargs

Tags: tail ls xargs watch

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Poll and print end of lates modified file

Watches for file modifications in the current directory and tails the file.

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watch w

2013-05-07 15:02:41

User: techie

Functions: watch

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Show who is logged on and find out what they are doing

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watch "lsof -i -P |grep ESTABLISHED |awk '{printf \"%15.15s \\t%s\\n\", \$1, \$9}'"

2013-04-03 02:04:11

User: skarfacegc

Functions: watch

Tags: lsof watch networking awk grep

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What addresses are your applications talking to?

Shows which applications are making connections, and the addresses they're connecting to. Refreshes every 2 seconds (watch's default). Test on OSX, should work anywhere watch and lsof work.

watch -d=c -n3 'lsof -itcp -iudp -c php'

2013-03-14 01:24:50

User: AskApache

Functions: watch

Tags: lsof PHP watch

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Watch your websites php

Shows files and processes of the command php

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watch "ss -nat | awk '"'{print $1}'"' | sort | uniq -c"

2012-12-07 19:07:33

User: ricardofunke

Functions: watch

Tags: monitoring netstat tcp ss connections

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Monitoring TCP connections number

Monitoring TCP connections number showing each state. It uses ss instead of netstat because it's much faster with high trafic.

You can fgrep specific ports by piping right before awk:

watch "ss -nat | fgrep :80 | awk '"'{print $1}'"' | sort | uniq -c"

watch -t -n 1 date +%T

2012-09-30 14:10:58

User: Nicolargo

Functions: date watch

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Create a continuous digital clock in Linux terminal

Source: http://www.my-guides.net/en/guides/linux/364-how-to-create-a-continuous-digital-clock-in-linux-terminal

watch -n 1 pkill -USR1 "^dd$"

2012-08-31 05:15:45

User: ivanalejandro0

Functions: watch

Tags: dd progress speed

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send DD a signal to print its progress

Sends the "USR1" signal every 1 second (-n 1) to a process called exactly "dd".

The signal in some systems can be INFO or SIGINFO ...

look at the signals list in: man kill

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watch "asterisk -vvvvvrx 'core show channels' | egrep \"(call|channel)\""

2012-08-29 13:40:45

User: rowshi

Functions: watch

Tags: Ubuntu watch asterisk

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Watch active calls on an Asterisk PBX

This handles when you have a single call or channel. Other commands will strip out the result if there is a single channel or call active because the output changes the noun to be singular instead of plural.

watch -n10 "if test -e run.txt ; then chmod +x script.sh && ./script.sh && rm run.txt || rm run.txt && echo > failed.txt ; fi"

2012-07-29 00:38:08

User: bugmenot

Functions: watch

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How to run a shell script on a remote host using ftp

You can upload via ftp the script.sh in unix text format, and then upload a file called run.txt to execute once the script. Such script can be multiline. If the script fails a failed.txt will be generated that you can see via ftp.

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watch 'mysql -e "show full processlist;"'

2012-07-16 10:45:49

User: vchakoshy

Functions: watch

Tags: mysql process

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get mysql full processlist from commadline

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watch -n 1 "do foo"

2012-07-11 13:42:26

User: mesuutt

Functions: watch

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repeat a command every one second

Short method of "while x=0; do foo ; sleep 1 ; done"

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watch -n 1 "awk 'NR==3 {print \"Signal strength = \" \$3 \"00 %\"}''' /proc/net/wireless"

2012-06-07 11:00:56

User: jlaunay

Functions: watch

Tags: status cat watch wireless signals wifi

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Displaying wireless signal on screen in realtime.

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watch -n 1 cat /proc/net/wireless

2012-06-07 10:38:21

User: cantormath

Functions: cat watch

Tags: status cat watch wireless signals wifi

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Displaying wireless signal on screen in realtime.

Values will depend on the driver and the hardware specifics, so you need to refer to your driver documentation for proper interpretation of those values.

watch -n1 "uptime && ps auxw|grep http|grep -v grep | grep -v watch|wc -l && netstat -ntup|grep :80 |grep ESTABLISHED|wc -l && netstat -ntup|grep :80|grep WAIT|wc -l && free -mo && ps -ylC httpd --sort:rss|tail -3|awk '{print \$8}'"

2012-06-06 12:12:10

User: rockon

Functions: watch

Tags: process monitors

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Server load and process monitoring

In certain cases you mighy need to monitor the server load caused by certain process. For example HTTP, while stress testing apache using ab (apache benchmark) you may want to monitor the server status,load, # of spawned HTTP processes, # of established connections, # of connections in close wait state, apache memory footprint etc.

watch 'curl -s --location -I http://any.site.or.url | grep -e "$HTTP\|Location$"'

2012-04-23 17:05:29

User: theist

Functions: grep watch

Tags: curl redirect watch

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Debug redirects between production reloads

Watches the headers of a curl, following any redirects and printing only the HTTP status and the location of the possible redirects.

watch -n 5 "upower -d | grep energy -A 4"

2012-04-02 22:33:37

User: aidanlinz

Functions: watch

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Quick Battery Power Monitor

Convenient to leave running in a yakuake or plasmacon terminal.

For older kernels

watch -n 5 cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

watch -n 2 command

2012-03-20 19:55:52

User: pranavkn

Functions: watch

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Watch command

Repeat command after every 2 secs

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watch() { while true; do echo "<Ctrl+V><Ctrl+L>Every 2.0s: $@"; date; eval "$@"; sleep 2; done }

2012-03-07 09:30:15

User: hfs

Functions: echo eval sleep watch

Tags: watch

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Poor man's watch: Repeat a command every N seconds

Usage:

watch ls -l

Basic but usable replacement for the "watch" command for those systems which don't have it (e.g. the Solaris I'm trapped on).

Type Ctrl+V to escape the following Ctrl+L which clears the screen. It will be displayed as "^L".

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watch() { if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "usage: watch interval command" return fi sec=$1 shift while test :; do clear; date=$(date); echo -e "Every "$sec"s: $@ \t\t\t\t $date"; echo $@; sleep $sec; done }

2012-02-29 17:10:19

User: kneufeld

Functions: echo return shift sleep test watch

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for all who don't have the watch command

allows command to use switches

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watch -n 1 "echo | sudo iptables -nvL | head -1 | awk '{print \$7}'"

2012-02-21 04:36:46

User: gudie

Functions: watch

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see the size of the downloaded traffic

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sudo watch arp-scan --interface=wlan0 --localnet

2011-12-30 04:23:00

User: ramaxial

Functions: sudo watch

Tags: bash Linux find list ip address wireless ipv4 arp-scan real-time mac address

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Find & watch active IP and MAC addresses in a wireless network in real time. (IPv4 only)

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watch -tn1 'figlet -f slant `date +%T` | cowsay -n -f telebears'

2011-11-25 14:35:01

User: namakukingkong

Functions: watch

Tags: Linux

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Realtime clock cowsay

You need to have figlet(for font) and cowsay installed.

Just copy n paste this command and you can see.....

watch -tn1 'date +%T | xargs banner'

2011-11-20 04:46:02

User: kev

Functions: watch xargs

Tags: banner

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ascii digital clock

# ### ### # # ### ### # # #

## # # ### # # # # ### ## # #

# # # # ### # # # # ### # # # #

# ### ##### # # #####

# # # ### # # ### # #

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watch -n1 "ls -p | grep '/$'"

2011-10-26 09:21:27

User: dbykov

Functions: watch

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Watching directories

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watch -n 1 "netstat -ntu | sed '1,2d' | awk '{ print \$6 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 2"

2011-09-30 09:04:14

User: facecool

Functions: watch

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Monitor connection statistics with netstat and watch

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