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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Repeating commands in a script Post 66407 by muthukumar on Monday 14th of March 2005 03:46:57 AM
Old 03-14-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave2874
I have written a script that I want to be repeated. The script that I wrote outputs the date, how many people are on the system, how many people logged in before me, and how many people logged in after me. Than what I want it to do is after it outputs the 4 lines I want it to go back to the beginning and start over. How would I go about doing this without using a loop. Is there a command in unix that does this? Thanks for your help.
You can do infinite loop of same commands as,

#way1 - with infinite while loop
#!/bin/sh
while true; do

date
who | wc -l
..
# Sleep for some time to make loop again
sleep 2
done
exit 0

# way2 - with cron
#!/bin/sh
date
who | wc -l
..

exit 0

# chmod 755 <script>
crontab -e
* * * * * <script with absolute path> 1>/dev/null 2>&1

so that script will be executed everyday on everyday hour..

HTH.
 

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