Making sure my terminal is still connected, I use this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $now = time;
while (1) {
$now = time;
if (($now % 5) == 0) {
system "date";
while (($now % 5) == 0) {
$now = time;
}
}
}
But that eats a lot of system resources for something so simple...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $seconds = 5;
while (1) {
my $time = localtime();
print $time, "\n";
sleep $seconds;
}
is a lot more elegant... Thanks, jwest! "Sleep" was the big thing I was missing...
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