Run the periodic job automatically in background and make your life easy!!!

 Run periodic command with crontab

crontab -e

list commands to be run and time it has to be run and you are good to go. The following would write hello in helloooo.txt every min 24/7.

 * * * * * echo hello >> Desktop/helloooo.txt

The following might be good to look at to get more info,

https://crontab.guru/