Re: Run script/function at regular intervals

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 30 April 2013 11:39, Arnaud Miege <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a script (although it could be easily turned into a function if need
> be) that retrieves data from a website using urlread and saves (appends) it
> to a CSV file and also a data file. I would like to run this script at
> regular intervals, e.g. every hour, ideally in the background.

What OS? There are tools to do this sort of thing. The perennial
tradition in Unix is cron:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

HTH,
- Jordi G. H.


>
> I have gone through the various timing functions in Octave, and the only one
> that seems adequate for the job is sleep. Is there a better solution? While
> Octave is "sleeping", does it mean I cannot do anything else unless I fire
> another instance of Octave? Is there any way to run this in the background?
>
> Any suggestions welcome,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnaud
>
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