Repeat command automatically in Linux

Question

Is it possible in Linux command line to have a command repeat every n seconds?

Say, I have an import running, and I am doing

ls -l
         


        

Answer 1

watch -n 5 'ls -l 

Will Runls -l command after every 5s

Output :-

Every 5.0s: ls -l                                                                                                      Fri Nov 17 16:28:25 2017

total 169548
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin     4292 Oct 18 12:16 About_us_Admission.doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin      865 Oct 13 15:26 About_us_At_glance.doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin     1816 Oct 13 16:11 About_us_Principle.doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin     1775 Oct 13 15:59 About_us_Vission_mission.doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin     1970 Oct 13 16:41 Academic_Middle_school.doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin      772 Oct 16 16:07 academics_High_School.doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin      648 Oct 16 13:34 academics_pre_primary.doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin      708 Oct 16 13:39 academics_primary.doc
-rwxrwxr-x  1 sachin sachin     8816 Nov  1 12:10 a.out
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin    23956 Oct 23 18:14 Ass1.c++
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin      342 Oct 23 22:13 Ass2.doc
drwxrwxr-x  2 sachin sachin     4096 Oct 19 10:45 Backtracking
drwxrwxr-x  3 sachin sachin     4096 Sep 23 20:09 BeautifulSoup
drwxrwxr-x  2 sachin sachin     4096 Nov  2 00:18 CL_1
drwxrwxr-x  2 sachin sachin     4096 Oct 23 20:16 Code
drwxr-xr-x  2 sachin sachin     4096 Nov 15 12:05 Desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 sachin sachin        0 Oct 13 23:12 doc
drwxr-xr-x  4 sachin sachin     4096 Nov  6 21:18 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 27 sachin sachin    12288 Nov 17 13:23 Downloads
-rw-r--r--  1 sachin sachin     8980 Sep 19 23:58 examples.desktop