How to Run or Repeat a Linux Command Every X Seconds Forever | Linux Today

How to Run or Repeat a Linux Command Every X Seconds Forever

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Nov 1, 2019

A system administrator often needs to run a command repeatedly in a certain periods of time. Often such tasks can be easily completed with simple cron commands. In most of the cases this should work, but the shortest period which you can run cron command is every 1 minute. Believe it or not, in many cases this is too slow.

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