To kill the outer loop I usually add a sleep command and press CTRL-C some more times: while :; do LONGTIME_COMMAND; sleep 1; done. Please notice: the colon behind while is interpreded as …

I have a program which produces useful information on stdout but also reads from stdin. I want to redirect its standard output to a file without providing anything on standard input. So far, so goo...

Jul 3, 2023 · I am doing a unix script using until loop.The idea of my script is it need to continuously verify the url status whether is up or down.When its up, it will exit the loop. In my script, I will use c...

Aug 7, 2011 · I encountered the following in /var/log/syslog on Ubuntu 14.04. Mar 24 09:41:19 ripple pulseaudio[4838]: [autospawn] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/112/pulse): No …

Apr 9, 2021 · Also, in while [ true ], the test checks if true is a non-empty string. It obviously is, so this does work in giving an endless loop. But [ false ] would also be always true, so a test like that is …

Aug 6, 2025 · After a recent update, kate seems to fork a copy of itself, presumably with some parameter which prevents an endless recursion, and then exits. Presumably this was intended to …

Jan 27, 2015 · I'm using git. I did a normal merge, but it keeps asking this: # Please enter a commit message to explain why this merge is necessary, # especially if it merges an updated upstream into …

Is there any elegant method/technology-to-use/hack in linux, to achieve such file continuously written is at maximum N bytes long and always contains only last written data (sequentially)? This means no …

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Sep 29, 2025 · ¹ Unless that code is in a subshell in which case it only exits the subshell. ¹ ² Though if those expressions reference other variables, you'd want to make sure those variables contain integer …