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Aaron
Aaron

Reputation: 3325

Script repeat itself after X minutes

I have a bash script in Ubuntu, I want it to run every 10 minutes for example after it's done. How can I do this? Thanks!

Upvotes: 10

Views: 10019

Answers (4)

Refael
Refael

Reputation: 7323

Or with crontab -e, or another option, to check the date. for example, if you want to do something every 10 minutes, you can write:

if [ $((`date +%M`%10)) -eq 0 ] && [ `date +%S` -lt 10 ]; then
   #your code
fi

Upvotes: 0

glenn jackman
glenn jackman

Reputation: 246807

You can use at to reschedule the script from within the script. At the end of the script put:

at now + 10 minutes << END
"$0" "$@"
END

Upvotes: 5

another.anon.coward
another.anon.coward

Reputation: 11395

You can check watch.
From the man pages of watch the description says watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen, you can try watch -n 600 my_script.sh which will execute myscript.sh every 600 seconds i.e. 10 minutes. watch shows the output to full screen, you can redirect it to say /dev/null in case you are not interested in the output to the screen.
Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 16

shadyabhi
shadyabhi

Reputation: 17234

Cronjobs is what you need.

My blog post:- http://linux-junky.blogspot.com/2010/10/guide-to-add-cronjob-simplified.html

Or you can also use sleep 600 in your script.

Upvotes: 5

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