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Old 11-08-2011
To Run a job every hour without using crontab
Hi,

Can anyone help me in finding how to run a specific job every hour without using crontab.

Say for example i need to run a command ps -aux in the starting of every hour..
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Old 11-08-2011
try with at command
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Old 11-08-2011
Hi itkamaraj,

Thanks :-) ..

Also could you please provide the solution for this:

I need to write a script which adds all the digits in the parameter passed as an argument.

For example: If i am passing the parameter as "123" which is $1, i need to write a script for adding 1+2+3.
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Old 11-08-2011
home work ?
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