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The command watch executes a program periodically, showing output
fullscreen. By default, the program is run every 2 seconds; use -n or
-interval to specify a different interval. For example, you can use
watch to see how much memory is being used on your system every 5 seconds with
the following command.
watch -n 5 free
Amit Jain
2009-08-23