I am looking for a C library feature, to which I can say execute a function every 10 seconds.
for Eg
I am not interested in using the sleep function in a while loop or something..
Is there such a feature in the standard C library ??. I have heard about such facilities available on the kernel libraries.
Hi,
I wrote a smiple ksh function
send_notification() {
...
}
and want to execute it on each file, matched by the find command.
I tried:
find / -name "*.err" -mtime -8 -exec send_notification {} \;
but it doesn't work. What should I do? I work in ksh on Hp-Ux.
Regards,
Pit (11 Replies)
Hi All,
Can you please tell me how to execute local function written in a shell script with awk.
i tried with system command but its giving an error. (1 Reply)
I have a script A which calls script B. I wrote a function in script A to be executed when Kill command is issued for script A and I invoke that function using the trap command.The function identifies all child process running under script A (in this case script B) and kills the child process and... (3 Replies)
Gurus,
Can you please tell me why this script is executing but i am getting no result...also can you tell me what is this gettime() doing?
in a script i wrote this hour.SH
--------------------------
gettime() {
date '+%H' | {
read hour
TIME=${hour}
}
}
:
----------------------... (2 Replies)
dear all
i need your advice in shell with solaris
i have testing script like this
#!/usr/bin/bash
function test(){
echo "testing only"
}
## execute function ##
test
but if i running always got error like this
test.sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
who can i running this... (7 Replies)
Here is some back ground on the script. The script is to poll an arbitrary number of DB's. To do this I am creating a function that takes the file_path to the DB and the min poll interval as arguments. The function will be called for each DB and then ran in the background. The function I was... (6 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to a write a script which gives message queue depth for every 5 mins in a file.
Commands that I use are
runmqsc QM_Name
display ql(*) curdepth
Since I can use only MQSC commands I need help on how to fetch the output on to a file after executing display command. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to shell scripting and i need to write a automation script to execute sql files. I need to check the table if it is there in system tables and need to write a function to call the .sql files.
For ex. I have a.sql,b.sql,c.sql files, where the sql file contains DELETE and INSERT... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a menu driven scripts. As you know while running the script we have to input the option such as 1,2, and 3 to execute function accordingly. but after selecting the input we have to press Enter.
My requirement is to execute function as soon as we press the option.
Is there... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
sleep
SLEEP(3) 1 SLEEP(3)sleep - Delay executionSYNOPSIS
int sleep (int $seconds)
DESCRIPTION
Delays the program execution for the given number of $seconds.
PARAMETERS
o $seconds
- Halt time in seconds.
RETURN VALUES
Returns zero on success, or FALSE on error.
If the call was interrupted by a signal, sleep(3) returns a non-zero value. On Windows, this value will always be 192 (the value of the
WAIT_IO_COMPLETION constant within the Windows API). On other platforms, the return value will be the number of seconds left to sleep.
ERRORS /EXCEPTIONS
If the specified number of $seconds is negative, this function will generate a E_WARNING.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.3.4 | |
| | |
| | Before PHP 5.3.4, on Windows, sleep(3) always |
| | returns NULL when sleep has occurred, regardless |
| | of whether the sleep was interrupted or not. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
sleep(3) example
<?php
// current time
echo date('h:i:s') . "
";
// sleep for 10 seconds
sleep(10);
// wake up !
echo date('h:i:s') . "
";
?>
This example will output (after 10 seconds)
05:31:23
05:31:33
SEE ALSO usleep(3), time_nanosleep(3), time_sleep_until(3), set_time_limit(3).
PHP Documentation Group SLEEP(3)