2010-04-15 14:16:06

by roywoco

Subject: Repeat a command in background

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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2010-04-15 14:48:07

by Daniel Mack

Subject: Re: Repeat a command in background

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