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[stuarthall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Hall)]

I know there are quite a few script gurus on this list who might be
able to help me.

I am trying to write a BASH script that will run a program every 20
seconds.  The program is called "sensors" which polls my cpu
temperature sensors, but only once.  I'd like it to happen repeatedly.
I am piping the results to a text file (sensors.txt) where root-tail
is displaying them on my KDE background.  right now the results are
static since I can only run "sensors" manually.

I need help figuring out the following:

1.  How to launch a program based on a specific time period.  I have
figured out for loops, but it doesn't really work very accurately
implementing the delay between loops, and it only runs for the number
of loops that I set in the script.

Can this be done in C++ more easily that a script?  I can figure out
the looping a whole lot more easily (e.g.  use a for (;;;) to make an
endless loop).

Thanks,
stuart

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Stuart Hall
Connecticut, USA
stuarthall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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