Re: Date request

[Bob Proulx]

Scott Baker wrote:
> An option for the date command to have it show the time, and then STAY 
> running and update the time every 1 second.  I want a "live" clock that I 
> can run and watch to see what time it is.  I have certain cron jobs that 
> run every 5 minutes.  If I had a clock program that would let me watch them 
> it would make things easier.  Just a request.

Are you running X?  Then look at 'xclock' which does exactly as you
wish.

You can always create what you ask yourself.

  while sleep 1; do clear; date; done

Bob