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From: Abhey Shah <as234@yor...>
Subject: watch command
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:47:19 +0100
Don't know if if it'll work with plan 9 perl but atchange may be an
option?
http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/atchange.html
Abhey
On 19 Apr 2005, at 07:57, YAMANASHI Takeshi wrote:
>> Then, what is the purpose for?
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> Just as same as the original watch (troff type setting).
> Actually, I'm doing a LaTeX work now, and thought it would be
> handy if the "platex; xdvi" command chain is run automatically.
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>> I thought you are going to watch, say, kernel sources changed by
>> someone else...
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> oh, it would be fun to see diff whenever some changed some file, too.
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