perl or unix ? question

[calbear2000]

I want my script to print out a message to STDOUT every 5 seconds... any ideas how I can do this simple task?

Thanks!

 

[KingNothing]

plug a USB 2.0 cable into your right ear. Left ear also if you want full duplex brain control over stdout.

 

[benliong]

You could keep running it in one tty, or maybe write the perl program as a daemon? though I can't think of a reason why you'd want a tex STDOUT output every 5 seconds. care to share?

 

[Apathetic]

inside a loop call
sleep(5);
print("Some message");

I don't have any perl books handy to give you proper syntax - they're all at work and I haven't used it in about 3 years.

Dave

 

[notfred]

nevermind, I just saw this thread was old.