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Re: need help on shell programming



On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:35:01 Mike Castle wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:54:28PM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
> >> I want a script.
> >> The script run a command, wait one minute,
> >> then run the command again, wait one minute again
> >> ... again and again ...
> > Sounds like a job for Cron!
>
> It depends on how long the job takes, and what the requirements are.
>
> They did seem to imply they want to wait 60 seconds between the end of
> one run to the start of the next one, as opposed to running every 60
> seconds regardless.

The OP says they want fixed-delay.  Cron is for fixed-frequency.  A script 
that schedules itself as an "at" job as it's last command is another way to 
handle fixed-delay.

> If the job takes 45 seconds, it could be a pretty substantial semantic
> difference.

Yep.
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