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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting to copy and repeat Post 302135189 by falcondown01 on Thursday 6th of September 2007 09:27:08 PM
Old 09-06-2007
to copy and repeat
Hi All,
I have done some looking at other threads but haven't found quite what I am looking for. I am a newbie to scripting and haven't got to where I want to you but here is my basic question. I have a script to copy a file and send it to another file with a date and time stamp. What I want to do is to be able to repeat this command within the script to happen every 30 (or 45 or 60) minutes. I have looked at doing a cron job but want more maual intervention to start and stop the script. So I am looking to just have the commands in the script repeat itself after a sleep. Here is the script I have so far:

#! /bin/sh
for i in `ls sband_log_error`
do
mv $i labfiles/int/sband/$i$(date +%F-%T)
done

Thanks,
falcondown01
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

repeat

textutil::repeat(n)				    Text and string utilities, macro processing 			       textutil::repeat(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       textutil::repeat - Procedures to repeat strings.

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.2

       package require textutil::repeat  ?0.7?

       ::textutil::repeat::strRepeat text num

       ::textutil::repeat::blank num

_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       The package textutil::repeat provides commands to generate long strings by repeating a shorter string many times.

       The complete set of procedures is described below.

       ::textutil::repeat::strRepeat text num
	      This  command returns a string containing the text repeated num times. The repetitions are joined without characters between them. A
	      value of num <= 0 causes the command to return an empty string.

	      Note: If the Tcl core the package is loaded in provides the command string repeat then this  command  will  be  implemented  in  its
	      terms, for maximum possible speed. Otherwise a fast implementation in Tcl will be used.

       ::textutil::repeat::blank num
	      A convenience command. Returns a string of num spaces.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category textutil
       of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
       either package and/or documentation.

SEE ALSO

       regexp(n), split(n), string(n)

KEYWORDS

       blanks, repetition, string

textutil							       0.7.1						       textutil::repeat(n)
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