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Ok. Whilst we're being anal:

screen -dmS 17secondjob perl -Mthreads -e 'while(1){threads->create(sub{`run the command`})->detach();sleep 17}'



Or just use watch.


Cool. I was unfamiliar with this command. Looks useful.


Look for `watch -p'.




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