Answer by Praveen Kumar BS for Increment a variable timely in bash script
Below is code i=10 for ((j=1;j<=count_of_sequence;j++)); do echo $i; sleep 10;i=$(($i+1)); done output 10 11 12 13 14
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A horrible solution: #!/bin/bash somevar=0 somefile=$(mktemp) echo "$somevar" > "$somefile" while true; do sleep 3; ((somevar++)); echo "$somevar" > "$somefile" ;done & while true; do sleep 1...
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In bash, the $SECONDS special variable is already incremented once every second like in ksh where the feature comes from. It's initialised to 0 at the time the shell starts (or from the value of the...
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I want to increment a variable by one every 3 seconds. Is there any way to do that using bash? I had a program running in infinite loop in which I am doing some stuff with a variable; I want to...
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