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by jluxenberg 2195 days ago
Pro tip: you can make any command into a real-time one with `watch`:

  watch bash -c "topngx < /path/to/access.log"
Will run `topngx` against access.log every two seconds and display the output.
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That's not "real time"! And definitely won't behave well if the processing takes more than 2 seconds (imagine log files of many millions rows)
It'll just wait two seconds after the command returns, not spawn one every two seconds.....