Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I have an command which find the files modified within last 3 days and then after selecting the files from the location it make the tar format and send it to the specified destination ...now I want that this task to be automative ..that is it should happen after every 5 minutes ..plz guide me how to to proceed and also the command ..I am sending u the below command which i want to be get automative...

Code:

find /home/499633/files -iname "*.txt" -mtime -3| xargs tar -cvzf /home/499633/output/backup.tar

if the above posted command is working fine ... then put that in while loop and set the sleeper ..

Code:

while [ 1 ]
do
     find /home/499633/files -iname "*.txt" -mtime -3| xargs tar -cvzf /home/499633/output/backup.tar
     sleep 300 ## for 5 mins
done

Hi jayan,

Thanx a lot , it is working fine..and I also want to know if I want to run this command let say on every friday of the week @ 3pm, then plz guide me how to proceed for this , if possible can u also send the script as earlier post ..!!

then go for cron entry .. put the command in a file

Code:

$ cat infile
find /home/499633/files -iname "*.txt" -mtime -3| xargs tar -cvzf /home/499633/output/backup.tar

Add it in cron ..

Code:

00 15 * * 5 sh /your/script/path/infile 2>&1

Hi jayan,

Thanx a lot , its working ..!! thanks..!!

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Hi jayan,
I have tried u r this script , but the files r immediately getting transferred ...I mean to say that they should be get transfferd after 5 minutes ...!!

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