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Well you can, and you have been able to since forever as it’s installed by default on the majority of Linux distributions. watch is part of the procps package, available in Debian and Ubuntu. Here is an example for checking a directory: watch ls -l To highlight changes in each program run, you can use the -d flag: watch -d ls -l And to run the command every N seconds, use -nN (by default, watch runs every 2 seconds): watch -n1 -d ls -l Finally, to make the...