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Do you know a similar program for watch (unix watch command) on Windows?

I find unxutils and and gnuwin32 Packages don't have this command...

Solution

  • On systems where I don't have a watch, I often use an infinite loop (you could also write it as an alias)

    I'm using Bash syntax here, but you can surely do something similar on your platform:

    while true; do my-thing-to-watch; sleep 1; done

    And, for convenience, one can wrap it into a command which reuses either $0 or $@ depending on your platform.