stupid bash tricks (how to loop on the command line)
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Nov 8 22:55:56 UTC 2007
aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
> Okay, I saw a neat trick at work the other day. A coworker somehow got
> the shell to do looping without creating a file. I believe he was using
> csh to do so and I was wondering if I could do the same thing in bash.
> Basically I would like to be able to do a while loop to execute a df
> command.
>
> Any ideas?
while df ; do sleep 30m ;done
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Cheers
John
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