cat command with timeout

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 04:06:51PM +0300, Raz wrote:
> watch -n1 cat lala
> is another possiblity

What for?

This re-runs cat 1 second after it has finished running.

Try:

  watch -n1 'sleep 5; echo hi'

It will refresh the display every 6 seconds.

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