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wcloop
#!/usr/bin/perl
print STDERR "Press ^C to exit\n";
my $cmd_line = 'wc ' . join ' ', @ARGV;
my $out;
while (1) {
$out = `$cmd_line`;
chomp $out;
print "\cM$out";
sleep 1;
}
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Use watch instead of this script:
watch -n 1 wc -l some.txt

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