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Executes the command provided as argument and respawns it if it got terminated.
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respawn.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Executes the command provided as argument and respawns it if it got
# terminated.
#
# Licensed under CC0 <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>
$@ &
PID=$!
while :
do
sleep 1
if ! ps -p $PID > /dev/null; then
$@ &
PID=$!
fi
done
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