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# 1  
Old 08-15-2006
very unusual question about while
is there anyway to make while run a command faster than per second?

timed=60
while [ $timed -lt 60 ]

do
command
sleep 1

done


i need something that can run a script for me more than one time in one second. can someone help me out here?
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# 2  
Old 08-15-2006
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
timed=60
while [ $timed -lt 60 ]
do
   command &
   timed=$timed-1
done
wait

This may exceed the maximum number of allowed processes - so you may want to set 60 down to something like 15 or 20
# 3  
Old 08-15-2006
Also, you could see if your system has 'usleep'.
Code:
USLEEP(1)                                                            USLEEP(1)

NAME
       usleep - sleep some number of microseconds

SYNOPSIS
       usleep [number]

DESCRIPTION
       usleep sleeps some number of microseconds.  The default is 1.

# 4  
Old 08-16-2006
usleep doesn't appear to be a command. its for c, c++ and perl and i dont know that.


and i tried jims method too but it doesn't seem to be working my system. when u minus 1 from a value that isn't greater than 1 my system makes the result 0 instead of the .3333333 or whatever the remainder is.
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