[Fedora] Re: stupid bash tricks (how to loop on the command line)

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Thu Nov 8 17:51:37 UTC 2007


Jose Celestino wrote:
> $ while  [ 1 ] ; do df ; sleep 1 ;done
    Or:

       $ while true ; do df ; sleep 1 ; done

    Or:

       $ while true  <return>
       > do df       <return>
       > sleep 1     <return>
       > done        <return>

    CTRL-C to break out of it, or write your own catch trigger within 
the while loop to exit.

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