From: david nicol (whatever@davidnicol.com)
Date: 01/19/03 

Subject: how to schedule a recurring task in bash
From: david nicol <whatever@davidnicol.com>
Message-Id: <1043037391.1169.71.camel@chicago.davidnicol.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:36:40 -0600

for instance,

while sleep 10; do date; done &