to copy and repeat

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,
I have done some looking at other threads but haven't found quite what I am looking for. I am a newbie to scripting and haven't got to where I want to you but here is my basic question. I have a script to copy a file and send it to another file with a date and time stamp. What I want to do is to be able to repeat this command within the script to happen every 30 (or 45 or 60) minutes. I have looked at doing a cron job but want more maual intervention to start and stop the script. So I am looking to just have the commands in the script repeat itself after a sleep. Here is the script I have so far:

#! /bin/sh
for i in `ls sband_log_error`
do
mv $i labfiles/int/sband/$i$(date +%F-%T)
done

Thanks,
falcondown01

2

use 'sleep n'
--------------------------
Usage: sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
or: sleep OPTION
Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be `s' for seconds (the default),
`m' for minutes, `h' for hours or `d' for days. Unlike most implementations
that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating
point number.

3

Thanks younggun, should it be inserted at the end of the mv command?

Thanks for the info,
falcondown01

4

whether inserted at the end of the mv command is determind by the 'sleep code' infront of the mv command or behind.

5

Hi younggun,
Thanks for the info. I was able to finish this script today. Below is the final script and it worked for copying this file i need over and over.

#! /bin/csh
while 1
cp -p file_name /directory/to/copy/to/file_name'date '+%d%h%y_%T''
sleep 1800
end

Again Thanks for the help!
Falcondown01:b: