Unix to run commands repeatedly on shell without using crontab

Question

Say if I need to run a command checkstatus --jobnumber 12345 to check the job status. The command prints out the info to standard output. Is there any way to run this command on shell repeatedly every minute? I wanted to see the latest job status.

Answer 1

Also watch(1)

Answer 2

Here's a small bashscript that would do that:

#!/bin/bash 

while : 
do
        checkstatus --jobnumber 12345;
        sleep 60;
done