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The command "watch" is used in Unix-like operating systems to periodically execute another command and display its output on the terminal.
In this case, the command consists of a pipeline where three commands, command_1
, command_2
, and command_3
are executed in sequence with their output being passed to the next command using the pipe symbol (|
).
The use of backticks (${}
) indicates that the commands within them are variables, so instead of literally executing "${command_1} | ${command_2} | ${command_3}
", the values of those variables will be substituted in.
So when the command is executed, it will periodically execute command_1
, then pass its output as input to command_2
, and finally pass the output of command_2
as input to command_3
. The output of the whole pipeline will be displayed on the terminal. The frequency at which the commands are executed is determined by the watch
command.