Occasionally I’ll have the need to watch screen output of multiple commands on the Linux CLI. Supremely easy but I don’t do it often enough to remember that I need to wrap the sequence in single (‘) or double (“) quotes. Correct formatting is below:
Single quotes are required when some part of your command string has double quotes already:
watch 'cat /var/log/some*.log | grep "regex[1-9]"'
Double quotes are fine when your command string doesn’t have existing double quotes:
watch "command1 && command2"
or:
watch "command1 ; command2"