[sllug-members]: Command to Execute command continuously

[Lamont R. Peterson]

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 12:18am, Randy Clements wrote:
> I have a new DNS server I want to REALLY pound on.  I found a little pair
> of scripts on the Internet which allows you to do a bunch of lookups and
> then return results.
>
> HOWEVER, I'd like to be able to run this command OVER and OVER and OVER
> again -- possibly getting it going MULTIPLE times on my machine in
> different shells.
>
> Anyone know how to do it?  Currently I do a ./check from the command like
> to run my script after I chmod 777'ed the file.  Works great.  But then I
> have to wait for the result, then run it again manually.
>
> I want it to just run all flippin' night long -- is there a way to get it
> to run that continuously from the command line?

I would loop it like Jeff suggested.  You could also do that within the 
script, itself.  Just wrap the "while; do" (stuff goes here) "done" around 
the "stuff" you want repeated.

To really pound against your server, you could then launch your auto repeating 
script with:

for i in $(seq 100); do ./script&; done

To kill them all, run (must be on the same shell they were launched on):

for i in $(seq 100); do kill %$i; done
-- 
Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
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