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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script that will look the same as Cron Post 303037671 by Raghav_Singh on Friday 9th of August 2019 09:20:44 AM
Old 08-09-2019
You can use loop to run on a specific time of day:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

while true;
do
    TIME=`date | cut -d' ' -f4`
    echo $TIME
    if [[ $TIME == "22:00:00" ]]
    then
            `your command`
            sleep 1s
    fi
done

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

ltime

TIME(3F)																  TIME(3F)

NAME

       time, ctime, ltime, gmtime - return system time

SYNOPSIS

       integer function time()

       character*(*) function ctime (stime)
       integer stime

       subroutine ltime (stime, tarray)
       integer stime, tarray(9)

       subroutine gmtime (stime, tarray)
       integer stime, tarray(9)

DESCRIPTION

       Time returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds.  This is the value of the UNIX system clock.

       Ctime  converts	a  system  time  to  a	24  character ASCII string.  The format is described under ctime(3).  No 'newline' or NULL will be
       included.

       Ltime and gmtime disect a UNIX time into month, day, etc., either for the local time zone or as GMT.  The order and meaning of each element
       returned in tarray is described under ctime(3).

FILES

       /usr/lib/libU77.a

SEE ALSO

       ctime(3), itime(3F), idate(3F), fdate(3F)

4.2 Berkeley Distribution					   May 15, 1985 							  TIME(3F)
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