how to code a timer loop in a sh script

Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com
Mon Nov 6 18:35:27 UTC 2017


On 11/06/2017 12:21 PM, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> Trying to write a sh script that will run continually and every 10
> minutes issue a group of commands. Been trying to use the wait command
> and the while loop command to achieve the desired effect with no joy.
> Would like an example of a wait loop code to see how its done.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
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while [ 1 = 1 ]
do
   command
   command
   ...
   sleep 600
done

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