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What is the Windows analog of the Linux watch command?

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Mar 15, 202693389 views

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I'm looking for a Windows program/script/command line function that works like Linux's program. periodically calls another program/whatever and shows the result, which is great for refreshing an output file or similar every second: or, more powerfully: I've looked for it in cygwin's library, but it doesn't seem to be present.

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watch cat my-output.txt

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Write your own. Let's say file contains : and call it via, for example: will echo every 5 seconds.

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