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		djacobs on Oct 26, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Watch – A Useful Linux Command You May Have Never ... Really? What part of the article was more useful than the man page? `diff the-article the-man-page \| wc -w => 75`

hugh3 on Oct 26, 2010 [–]

Well then, I guess it must be the 75 words.

djacobs on Oct 26, 2010 | [–]

The summary of those 75 words is "I want to watch for file changes but am too lazy to write a Perl script. Look at this. `man watch`"

I guess we just disagree about what part of the post is useful.

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