time control process

I am coding shell scripting in linux , is thr any method so that i can run a command for a specific time then another for a given time in rotration..like thereading in java. sm process control.

What sort of time resolution do you need - microseconds, seconds, minutes?

You can use a 'while' loop and put inside a 'sleep' command or parse the output from the 'date' command before starting a new process. Or you can wait until the previous process has terminated by the construct:

<the_process_to_launch> &
pid=$!
wait $pid

A better chance would be Python and the 'thread' module.

Bye

@colucix: I thought sunlinux meant cycling between two or more processes, putting putting all but one into a stopped state while one runs.

@sunlinux: if that is what you mean, you can probably do it with shell scripts, but it'll be a little ugly. You'll have to start several processes in the background (using the & symbol at the end of the command), then send signals with the kill command. SIGSTOP will stop a process running, SIGCONT will wake it up again. You can sleep between the swap over operation with the sleep command, but the resolution is 1 second, hence my original question.

what i understand according to your question, use at, cron...