Repeat a command in background

Repeat a command in background

[roywoco]

I would like to capture the output of vmstat every 10 min into a file. Can
anyone know how I can do it?

Thanks
Roy
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Re: Repeat a command in background

[Daniel Mack]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:16:03AM -0700, roywoco wrote:
> I would like to capture the output of vmstat every 10 min into a file. Can
> anyone know how I can do it?

Very wrong list for such questions, dude. Nevermind ...

#!/bin/sh

file=/tmp/file
while [ true ]; do
	cat /proc/vmstat >> $file
	sleep 600
done