Infinite-Loop on despatcheshttps://icle.es/tags/infinite-loop/Recent content in Infinite-Loop on despatchesHugoenFri, 20 Jun 2025 09:25:00 +0100Looping from the bash commandline [1113]https://icle.es/2011/12/20/looping-from-the-bask-commandline-1113/Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:32:08 +0000https://icle.es/2011/12/20/looping-from-the-bask-commandline-1113/<p>I figured this out the other day from idle curiosity. There is occassionally the need to have a never ending loop to be executed directly from the bash commandline instead of writing a script.</p> <p>I used this to run sl (yes sl, not ls - try it - I love it) repeatedly.</p> ``` $ while true; do ; done ``` <p>for example</p> ``` $ while true; do sl; done ``` <p>Bear in mind that this loop is infinite and there is no way to cancel out of it except to kill of the terminal.</p>I figured this out the other day from idle curiosity. There is occassionally the need to have a never ending loop to be executed directly from the bash commandline instead of writing a script.

I used this to run sl (yes sl, not ls - try it - I love it) repeatedly.

``` $ while true; do ; done ```

for example

``` $ while true; do sl; done ```

Bear in mind that this loop is infinite and there is no way to cancel out of it except to kill of the terminal.

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