watch command

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Hi,

Please help me out!

In the man pages they dont talk about any options that can be used to terminate a running 'watch' command. Do you know a way of terminating the command using an option?

Thanks

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watch runs until interrupted.

IF you are at the command line, CTRL-C will stop the command - unless watch is called from inside a shell script with SIGINT trapped. (bash or ksh trap command)

If watch is a separate process,

kill -9 pid

where pid == process id of the process will terminate the process.