On Tue, Oct 08 2013, Subba Rao <umroute_at_tanucoo.com> wrote:
> I have a run script that has an infinite loop performing some cleanup
> functions, system monitoring functions etc. Once the tasks in one loop
> cycle are completed, I want the loop in "run" script to sleep for some
> random #hours before starting a new loop cycle. I have been trying to
> use the $RANDOM in bash for the sleep time.
>
> while :
> do
> Function1
> Function2
> slp=$(( $RANDOM % 14 + 22)) /* Any number from 22 to 36 */
> zzz="${slp}h" /* Append "h" for hours */
> echo $zzz >> ./log.txt /* echo $zzz to log file */
> sleep $zzz /* sleep for $slp hours */
> done
Hi, Subbarao. I'm not sure if this is just a red herring, but the
syntax you've written here is confusing. "/*" is not a valid comment
character string in shell, so if this represents the actual content of
the script it should definitely not work. The comment character for
shell character "#".
jamie.
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