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. thanks jackster.mobi -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.