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Re:Show HN: Crondom by xyzzyz on Thursday December 16, 2010 @08:13AM (#2011877)
This will not run the `command` in 17 seconds intervals. You need to take into account the amount of time that it takes to run it.
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Re:Show HN: Crondom by mike-cardwell on Thursday December 16, 2010 @08:15AM (#2011886)
Ok. Whilst we're being anal:

screen -dmS 17secondjob perl -Mthreads -e 'while(1){threads->create(sub{`run the command`})->detach();sleep 17}'

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Re:Show HN: Crondom by eru on Thursday December 16, 2010 @09:14AM (#2012056)
Or just use watch.
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Re:Show HN: Crondom by mike-cardwell on Thursday December 16, 2010 @09:48AM (#2012174)
Cool. I was unfamiliar with this command. Looks useful.
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Re:Show HN: Crondom by eru on Thursday December 16, 2010 @10:52AM (#2012394)
Look for `watch -p'.
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