watch

The greatest power of Unix-like systems comes from its myriad tools that are built for composability. Watch is one such excellent tool that can be used to periodically monitor by repeatedly running a given program. Some programs, like top, have in-built capability to rewrite the console and show progress with new data. With watch, you can bring to bear this ability on any tool that writes to the console!

• This tool should be there on most systems. If not, installing is easy:

$ sudo apt install procps

• Example usage: nvidia-smi prints the memory, temperature and frequency of GPUs on a machine. To watch the usage in realtime, updated once every 0.1 second:

$ watch -n 0.1 nvidia-smi

Tried with: ProcPs 3.3.9 and Ubuntu 14.04