Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-11
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if 'watch' had an option to not clear the screen each time
it is run, and it would be even nicer if that option could preserve the
"watch" header while still safely scrolling the rest of the screen.
I often use "watch" to check the progress of things that are kind of hard to
watch the progress of otherwise (eg; rsyncs). Lately, I've stopped using
watch because I can't get a good gauge of overall progress. Instead, I
resort to bash commandlines like;
while true; do du -ks b10; sleep 10; done
Because this won't clear the screen each time, and so I can eyeball how fast
things are actually moving. A command with the purpose of "watch" should
support this sort of behaviour.
Thanks,
Tyler
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090124-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
procps suggests no packages.
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