Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-3
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/watch
Hi,
I'm using watch a lot so thanks for maintaining it. I'm missing a
small feature though. watch will only display the first screen full of
output from the command it runs. Currently I would need the last
screen full of output though. 'cmd \| tail' doesn't work well as lines
are sometimes too long and wrap into the next. So the number of lines
shown by watch differs.
For displaying the last page maybe -l, --last, --tail would be good.
Another feature that might be usefull would be to have multiple
commands with an option how many lines they may take:
watch [[--lines <num>] [--tail] --cmd <command>]*
where --cmd is optional if only one command is given and --lines would
limit the output of the command to at most <num> lines.
Example:
watch --cmd sensors --lines 10 --tail --cmd tail /var/log/messages --tail --cmd
tail /var/log/syslog
This would display the cpu temperature, the 10 last lines of messages
(counting line wraps) and as much as fits of the end of syslog.
MfG
Goswin
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.2-mrvn
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
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