Script to launch open a site repeatedly at regular intervals.

Here is a script which can be used to open a website at regular intervals and close the browser cleanly, repeatedly as long as you don't force close the script. This could be useful when you want to monitor something on a site or a wait for some news on a site and don't want to keep opening it manually.

#!/bin/bash echo "Enter the full website that has to be opened" read website echo "Enter the delay time, in seconds, between consecutive openings" read time echo "Enter the delay time,in seconds, for which the site should be kept open" read time_open while true do firefox $website & sleep $time_open wmctrl -c firefox sleep $time done

If you do not want to use firefox, you can replace the firefox command with the command to launch the browser of your choice.
Save the above script as run_repeat.sh, and execute it. bash run_repeat.sh

The script will prompt you to enter the website and delay times Enter the full website that has to be opened http://google.com Enter the delay time, in seconds, between consecutive openings 30 Enter the delay time,in seconds, for which the site should be kept open 30

The script will keep launching firefox and opening the site http://google.com, wait for 30 seconds and close it and launch it again after a delay of 30 seconds.