http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/iterative/popular/2013-09-24T13:26:19-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2013-09-24T13:26:19-07:00Rutger Saalminkhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4187940/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578673-run-some-command-every-x-seconds/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578673 by <a href="/recipes/users/4187940/">Rutger Saalmink</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/command/">command</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/iterative/">iterative</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/os/">os</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/run/">run</a>). </p> <p>Sometimes it comes in handy to run some command every minute or hour. For example, have some process check your ip address every minute with 'ifconfig' or run some purgescript at midnight through 'sqlplus.exe @purge_aux_table'.</p>