Watchfile
| Name | Watchfile |
| Version | 1.0 |
| State | stable |
| Last Update | 05 Oct 2001 |
| Download | Tarball source Repository |
New and improved version 1.0.
Contains some new things. See changes file. As usual, for a much more comprehensive list of commands and usuage, see the help option in the program. watchfile -h
My latest hack based-on-a-need. I've been wanting a program that would continually display the size of some files at the same place on the terminal (ie without scrolling down every update). So I decided to write one. Only took me 2 hrs to get it to this state :).
Watchfile will display a list of files on the screen, and continually update their stats. The stats displayed can be configured on the command-line.
Example:
watchfile -sug -F 10 file1 file2 thethirdfile
The above will display the size, owner and group of file1, file2, thethirdfile on the terminal and update the values every 10 seconds.
Output
file1 : 14.67KB zaf:zaf file2 : 81B zaf:zaf thethirdfile: 1.23MB zaf:users