Would you like to create a lively, “top”-like output from some of the monitoring commands in your toolbelt?

“watch” can be of help here, as it can poll your command every X seconds and render its output to full screen.

Try “watch -n1 date” for a demo.

NAME
watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

SYNOPSIS
watch [-dhv] [-n ] [–differences[=cumulative]] [–help]
[–interval=] [–version]