The story:
- I got fed up with a local “loop” script,
- thinking there must be a standard utility for this,
- came across the watch utility while reading “Linux Server Hacks (xof2)“,
- and searched for “linux watch in perl“, 1st on DuckDuckGo (failing!), then on Google,
- got hold of watch.pl;
- it works on the current customer’s AIX – that’s what I wanted to see;
- and also on my MacBook running Mavericks
current disadvantage:
- only command line option it has: “-n secs“