Watch is a command on Linux that will repeatedly run commands for you, and it offers some very useful options. One of its basic options is that you can tell watch how long to wait before running ...

Linux systems provide a number of commands that make it easy to report on system activity. In this post, we’re going to look at several commands that are especially helpful. The watch command ...

Thankfully, someone at Microsoft realized the pain and decided to bring sudo to Windows. Now, I’m hopeful the Redmond-based ...

The other command line, inotifywatch, also outputs file change events but it watches for a certain amount of time and then gives you a summary of changes. I won’t talk about it any further.

To see the interrupts occurring on your system, run the command: # watch -n1 "cat /proc/interrupts" CPU0 CPU1 0: 330 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 11336 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge 6: 3 0 ...