From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2008-01-12T01:07:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Need command line to run a file 4 times

On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:00 PM, jackster the jackle wrote:

> Xavier Noria wrote:
>> You mean something like this?
>>
>>    $ for x in 1 2 3 4; do echo $x; done
>>    1
>>    2
>>    3
>>    4
>>
>> -- fxn
>
> Not exactly Xavier. I have a file (/usr/bin/snmp_poller.rb), when it
> runs, it polls a network device and stores the SNMP data in the DB. I
> currently have this running in CRON every minute. Without putting a  
> loop
> in my snmp_poller.rb code, I want to somehow tell CRON using a ruby
> command line option, to run snmp_poller.rb 4 times.
>
> I know there are a lot of command line, one liners to run ruby code  
> and
> I was hoping someone had one to do this.

Hmmm, but how is that different from chaging echo $x with your script?  
No trying to push that shell loop, just trying to understand the goal.

-- fxn