Look at alternatives to watch

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Halo Mr. Lester

watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen ... By default, command is run every 2 seconds and watch will run until interrupted. example: sudo watch "asterisk -x 'core show channels'"

Guess I never got to page 1014 of 'UNIX Power Tools' tool 'vis' ... under several different names, such as display, rep, and watch. We found vis to be the most useful.