From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain oceanfree.net)
Date: Thu 30 Aug 2001 - 09:34:59 IST
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:40:58PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Steffen Higel thought:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:35:35PM +0100, Paul Askins articulated:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to run a program or command periodically, but not
> > using cron. Basically what I'm after is something that will run the
> > command, go to sleep for say 10 minutes or some set time and then wake up
> > and run the command again, and so on. Anybody got any ideas? A
> > shell/perl script perhaps?
>
> Like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> while(true); do
> sleep 600
> echo "hello"
> done
Or, you could go with "at". Something like:
#!/bin/bash
echo "hello there" # had to do more than Steffen's script eh?
at now + 10 minutes << ATEND
$0
ATEND
It's probably not so useful for an "every x minutes" task but it really
gets into its own when you use it to have a job submit itself to run at
the same time tomorrow and stuff.
Conor
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