e36freak 1345490544 learn to help understand how watch(1) handles quotes/parsing, think of it running this: watch() { sh -c "$*"; while sleep 2; do sh -c "$*'; done; } e36freak 1345490556 forget e36freak 1345490563 learn to help understand how watch(1) handles quotes/parsing, think of it as running this: watch() { sh -c "$*"; while sleep 2; do sh -c "$*'; done; }