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Building a delay and loop in cygwin cmdline

I'm trying to build a delay and loop into my cygwin command line. Is this possible and if so, how?

I don't think I can be more specific without getting into much irrelevant details. However, if you want additional information, do let me know.

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I installed default cygwin with some additional stuff: wget most importantly. I am trying to loop a wget commandline each x minutes/hours/days. It is merely logging in to a website.

I am using mintty

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Getting the cron package for cygwin since that's more efficient.

Solution

  • You can do it as a shell script, or write this on the bash command prompt to perform an infinite loop with a 1 second delay:

    while true; do echo "hello"; sleep 1; done

    So with wget you would do:

    while true; do wget ...; sleep 1; done

    To add more delay just change the number after sleep.