There is a very useful but rarely used command in Linux, watch. While those of you who know about it are surely aware of all the easy works it does for you, I want to tell it to them who didn't know about it. watch literally watches over what you intent to use it for. From your mail account to linux directory listings to interrupts - watch can watch it over for you and display the results repeatedly at your desired time interval.

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