Effective usage of watch

Sometimes is useful to run over and over again the same command until something happen,
Sure you can use bash history and use up arrow and return over and over again, or perhaps write some line of bash to get an infinite loop that run the same command, but there is a smarter approach to this : watch

watch -d "ls -alrt /tmp/

Options

The most common options for watch are:

-n set the interval in seconds.
-d flag will highlight the differences between successive updates.
-b option causes the command to beep if it has a non-zero exit.
-e cause watch to exit on an error from the program running.

watch -n 1 "mysqladmin --user=root --password=mypassword processlist"

watch 'ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -n -r | head -10'