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[alexm@xxxxxxxxxxx (alex medvedev)]

Hi,

i am not a script guru, but this is what you can do:
-------- start ------
while sleep 20
do
run_your_program_here
done
-------- end --------

-alexm

and start it with appended "&"

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Stuart Hall wrote:

> 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
> --
> Stuart Hall
> Connecticut, USA
> stuarthall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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