Re: exe a comand every 5 min

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Antony Stace wrote:

> what about something like
> 
> while true
> do
> ./analog > gigi.html
> sleep 300
> done

while this will probably work, cron is the Officially Approved Method for
doing this sort of thing under UNIX, and is generally more manageable.
type "man crontab" for instructions, and "man cron" also.

> 
> 
> Vernica Rares wrote:
> > 
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > How can a execute a comand, let say, every 5 minutes (something like
> > './analog > gigi.html')?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Best regards,
> > Rares
> > 
> > 
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