How do I run a sh script every x seconds?

Question

I have a Linux server and I need to run a sh script with many commands every 5 seconds.

With a crontab, the minimum is 1 minute.

How can i do this?

Thank!

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Clément Andraud 19 jan. 13 at 8:29

2 answers

You can also use sleep

in a loop in a shell script:

#!/bin/sh
while [ true ]
do
    sh foo.sh
    sleep 5
done

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Grijesh chauhan 19 jan. At 8:35 am

Steven penny · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-19T08:32:29+0000

Example

watch -n 5 foo.sh