Hi Chris,

If the timing isn't important, is there anything to stop you writing the script with sleep 1 in it ~59 times and then running the script every minute in cron?

That way, even if the script dies, you only have to wait at most a minute before it tries again

Cheers

On 16 Aug 2014 17:02, "Chris Green" <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
I want to run a command at something like 1 second intervals (the
timing isn't at all critical), it's a background task with no screen
output.

So I want something like 'watch' but which will run without a
terminal, and I also want to be sure that the command will always get
run.  Thus something like a loop in bash with a 'sleep 1' in it isn't
suitable because if the command dies it won't restart.

I.e. it's a cron job with a 1 second repeat rate and non-critical
timing, any ideas anyone?

--
Chris Green

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