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June 2, 2014 04:02
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A shell one-liner for an infinite loop (sh/zsh/bash compatible)
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| while true; do date; sleep 5; done |
If you don't need to support sh then why bother with do and done?
for ((;;)) { date ; sleep 1 ; }
I find this one more readable because of curly brackets.
for ((;;))date&&sleep 1 even fewer bytes, in zsh at least :)
Just what I needed. Thanks!
I've got nothing personal against zsh or bash, and I appreciate shorter scripts posted for bash and zsh. Still, maintaining the backward compatibility even in such a small script like in this gist is important.
Nice
And I thought indenting is a must like it's in python. Thank you so much!
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@mhjb 👍