"Watch" command for Leopard?

Is there a command in Leopard similar to the "watch" command available in Linux? To help clarify what I am asking, in Linux I can use the "watch" command to run a command repeatedly, and it displays an updated output to the screen every 2 seconds.
Example:
test-linux:~ # watch netstat -nt
And this gives me the following screen output:
Every 2.0s: netstat -nt Sat Mar 28 10:44:27 2009
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 192.168.0.103:22 192.168.0.100:52515 ESTABLISHED
Thanks in advance!

Hi K2theCat;
You might have better luck of an answer if you repost your question over in the UNIX Forum where the command line gurus hang out.
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