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Old 12-15-2011
Question Schedule tasks in shell script

shell=ksh,

How could I schedule tasks in shell script INSTEAD OF using the crontab -e functionality?

For example, I want a script to print "Hello World" every 10 seconds (i.e., INTERVAL = 10s) until external termination signal is triggered.

Thanks,
# 2  
Old 12-15-2011
use sleep command

Code:
 
while [ 1 ]
do
echo "hello world"
sleep 10
done

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Old 12-17-2011
and make sure you launch above code with "nohup" so if you logout/exit from shell, the code always runs.
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