Timeline for Does watch only monitor the visible output?
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| Nov 15, 2013 at 1:16 | history | edited | terdon♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | typo |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 12:50 | vote | accept | terdon♦ | ||
| Nov 14, 2013 at 12:15 | comment | added | terdon♦ | OK, that's really weird then. So it does actually monitor and see the change, it just doesn't react to it! Definitely a bug then. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 7:31 | history | edited | slm♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 3131 characters in body |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 2:19 | comment | added | slm♦ | @terdon - my ancient version of Fedora didn't have the -g switch but I tried it on Ubuntu and it behaves the same. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 1:50 | comment | added | terdon♦ | Yeah, it just seems weird, it makes it impossible to run something like watch -g foo; echo "Something changed!". It seems a strangely crippling bug in such an established program. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 22:48 | history | answered | slm♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |