Automating Processes?

[Bumble]

Basically I have my script that retrieves data from another site, the data
is update say every hour. Is there anyway I could automate my script to look
for updated data every hour? Is there any kind of 'wait' command or time
checking command?

TIA

Simon

 

[Anno Siegel]

Basically I have my script that retrieves data from another site, the data
is update say every hour. Is there anyway I could automate my script to look
for updated data every hour? Is there any kind of 'wait' command or time
checking command?

perldoc -f sleep

Anno

 

[Iain]

Basically I have my script that retrieves data from another site, the
data is update say every hour. Is there anyway I could automate my
script to look for updated data every hour? Is there any kind of
'wait' command or time checking command?

perldoc -f sleep
perldoc -f alarm

or for a non-Perl solution, but quite possibly more sensible:

man crontab (on unix-like systems)
at /? (on Windows NT-like systems)