Somewhat related ... Is there a proper name for a "top-like interface" ? I think that "TUI" refers very broadly to any terminal user interface and both 'vim' and 'alpine' and 'top' would fall under this broad category. But is there a specific name for a refresh-every-second, full page status output - like 'top' ? Is there a standard library for creating such an interface, or do people always use curses ? Presumably c…
Very crudely, on linux you can do that with almost any CLI progam and the "watch" utility.
In a similar vein, "entr" (https://github.com/eradman/entr) relaunches any CLI command whenever the specified files/directory changes, with the possibility to clear the screen every time.