Time condition loop in shell

Question

I have just started learning shell script recently, so I don\'t know much about it.

I am trying to find example of time based while loop but not having any luck.

Answer 1

You can try this

starttime = `date +%s`
while [ $(( $(date +%s) - 3600 )) -lt $starttime ]; do
done

where 'date +%s' gives the current time in seconds.