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You are indeed correct now I just need to clean up the formatting a bit. Thanks

Well that solved one problem but created another. Once the timer script timestamps the log the tcpdump script stops writing to it until the timer script is shutdown.

Script 1 this is the one that must run constantly. Pretty basic I know.

#! /bin/sh
actual=`date`
echo "Process ID for tcpdump launched $actual is $$" > /log/procID.log
tcpdump -i en0 -A -s 0...

I have an interesting dilemma. I am trying make a script that is continuously scanning for new data. This script cannot be paused or stopped it needs to run constantly. I also want to...