run a command automatically after every 10 mins

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi friends,

I need to write a script which runs a command (on that particular server only) after every 10 mins, and the contents are also echoed on that very terminal only.
And then I need to compare the last two outputs, and mail if there is any difference in the last two outputs.
Can we set some alerts, say a machine beeps if the last two outputs have some difference.
Thats my total job.

I think I can do the rest part of it,

BUT

first I want to know how can I run a command automatically after every 10 mins, and dislpay its contents on the terminal.

Pls help, I am a newbie still learning.

Thanks in adv.

Regards,
Vikas

2

You can try the following method :

yes "date; sleep 10"|sh &  # display date every ten seconds

or

$ cat date.sh
while true
do
   date
   sleep 10
done
$ date.sh &

Jean-Pierre.

3

check if this works for you:

watch -10 "your_command"

man watch for details

addition: to automate this task, you may setup a cron job to run a script every 10 minutes

4

Hi Yogesh,

there is no watch command in Sun Os (Solaris).

Any other idea.

Thanks

5

Capture the outputs and use "diff" to check for the difference.

You can send a terminal a bell character ASCII 0x07,

echo \\0007