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watch: interpret ANSI color code sequences

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A patch from Debian.

Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/129334
Backported-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
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Craig Small
2010-03-01 06:17:11 +00:00
committed by Craig Small
parent db552d38bc
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.TH WATCH 1 "2009 May 11" " " "Linux User's Manual"
.TH WATCH 1 "2010 Mar 01" " " "Linux User's Manual"
.SH NAME
watch \- execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ watch \- execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
.RB [ \-n
.IR seconds ]
.RB [ \-\-beep ]
.RB [ \-\-color ]
.RB [ \-\-differences[=\fIcumulative\fP]]
.RB [ \-\-errexit ]
.RB [ \-\-exec ]
@@ -57,6 +58,10 @@ or
options, which will cause
.B watch
to exit if the return value from the program is non-zero.
.PP
By default \fBwatch\fR will normally not pass escape characters, however
if you use the \fI\-\-c\fR or \fI\-\-color\fR option, then
\fBwatch\fR will interpret ANSI color sequences for the foreground.
.SH NOTE
Note that