On Sunday 17 July 2005 12:35, John Kelly wrote: > Hi, > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:57:34 +0700 > AD Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there already one bash command to do what the following script > > does (poorly or incompletely), ie repeat "command" indefinitely > > every "x" seconds: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > # usage: repeat [x] <command> > > while true ; do $2 ; sleep $1 ; done > > > > < rest deleted > > > The watch command might tbe what you want. > Or maybe not, if you don't want anything output to screen. > > Try man watch for details. > <cut> Ya. Thanks. I'd (long) forgotten about "watch".
but, actually, i should be more specific. what i'm trying to do is something like this -- though i'm screwing up on quoting or something [EMAIL PROTECTED] repeat 2 "echo $(cat /proc/loadavg ; date +%H:%m:%S)" 0.05 0.14 0.24 6/127 27711 12:07:29 0.05 0.14 0.24 6/127 27711 12:07:29 0.05 0.14 0.24 6/127 27711 12:07:29 as you can see, only one instance of load average and time are repeated. i want a running record that can be redirected to a file i just tinkered with backslashes, back-quotes, double-quotes and single-quotes, but all the quoting stuff still confuses me. and, imho, i would have thought someone would have written a simple tool to do this ages ago. no? thanx again, andi -- AD Marshall Tel: +84 (0)903871313 eM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://h0lug.sourceforge.net Zone: ICT (IndoChina Time; GMT/UTC+7) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
