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Stan
Asked: 2012-03-07 21:50:10 +0800 CST

Unix to run commands repeatedly on shell without using crontab

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Say if I need to run a command checkstatus --jobnumber 12345 to check the job status. The command prints out the info to standard output. Is there any way to run this command on shell repeatedly every minute? I wanted to see the latest job status.

unix shell

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Also watch(1)

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  2. Here's a small bashscript that would do that:

    #!/bin/bash 

while : 
do
        checkstatus --jobnumber 12345;
        sleep 60;
done
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