Shell Script to Repeat the Execution of Command / Job Based on Time Interval Periodically

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Suppose if you are copying some huge files from server to another server and you wanted to see the progress in size, number you can use these scripts. These scripts will run periodically according to the sleep commands.

Using yes Command

To find the size of the files copied.

yes "date;ls -ltr * |awk '{ sum+=\$5 } END {print \"Bytes InGb:\" sum/1024/1024/1024}'; sleep 60" | sh

To find the number of files copied.

yes "date;ls -l|wc -l; sleep 60" | sh

Using while loop

while true

do

date

ls -ltr * |awk '{ sum+=$5 } END {print "Bytes In Gb:" sum/1024/1024/1024}'

ls |wc -l

sleep 60

done

Examples:

while true

> do

> date

> ls -ltr * |awk '{ sum+=$5 } END {print "Bytes In Gb:" sum/1024/1024/1024}'

> ls |wc -l

> sleep 60

> done

Wed May 22 09:10:12 CEST 2013

Bytes In Gb:0.089733

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