Create a command prompt loop Linux

Example:

[root@servername~ ]# while [ 1 ]
> do
> date;
> df –h |grep backup;
> sleep 600;
> done

This creates a loop that checks the disks mounted to the directories with the name “backup” and displays the date every ten minutes. This is useful to see the progress of a very large sync command on a ten minute basis. Obviously it can be changed for virtually any command.

Note: the “while [ 1 ]” basically means the while is always true, thus the “sleep 600” is required. Otherwise you would have an infinite loop just going crazy.

You can kill the output with ctrl-c

-Andy