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Bug 84981 - quote command used by watch command
Summary: quote command used by watch command
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Stefano Pacella (RETIRED)
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-ma...
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Reported: 2005-03-12 07:12 UTC by Toralf Förster
Modified: 2005-03-12 08:53 UTC (History)
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Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2005-03-12 07:12:17 UTC 
You wrote:
$>watch -n 1 grep "cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo

Better:
$>watch -n 1 'grep "cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo'

to prevent error msg like:
rep: MHz: No such file or directory
...


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Stefano Pacella (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-12 08:53:06 UTC 
in cvs thanks