How to run a command in Linux every x seconds | Linux Today

How to run a command in Linux every x seconds

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Feb 16, 2020

Oftentimes you need to run a command every X seconds on Linux. Granted you can use cron but unfortunately, it does not handle time granularities of less than a minute.

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