Terminating an infinite loop - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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 …
bash - How to do nothing forever in an elegant way? - Unix
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...
endless loop in until loop for unix script - Unix & Linux Stack …
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 …
Bash while loop stop after a successful curl request
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 …
Endless pulseaudio error logging: failed to acquire autospawn lock ...
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 …
How to stop kate forking itself - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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 …
Keep two entire Linux desktop systems in sync
Sep 1, 2025 · Wikipedia suggests "Endless OS", but I'm always wary of distros that I haven't heard of; they typically have problems that noone has heard of before, too ;) But you could …
crontab schedule on Alpine Linux runs on days it's not supposed …
Sep 16, 2024 · The familiar Vixie Cron daemon uses the integers 0 through 7 to designate the days of the week, from Sunday to Sunday (both 0 and 7 are Sunday). A schedule with 2-7 in …
How to exit a git merge asking for commit message?
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 …
Why arithmetic syntax error in bash causes exit from the function?
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 …