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...

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 …

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 …

Jun 24, 2018 · Stop endless loop .sh script Ask Question Asked 7 years, 5 months ago Modified 7 years, 5 months ago

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 give it a try if all the …

Jul 13, 2022 · sleep 60 is never triggering in the false case, as you combine all actions with && so it runs in an endless loop.

Jan 31, 2013 · 64 /dev/zero is a special file (in this case, a pseudo-device) that provides an endless stream of null characters (so hex 0x00)? That's why your cat is not outputting anything (but try …

Whenever I killed the user's process, a new one showed up and it seemed endless. After using usermod and expiredate, that seemed to stop it from creating a new process and so I could delete the account.

Mar 6, 2022 · What's replenishing my entropy so well, and how can I find the specific source of randomness? As of kernel 5.6, /dev/random obtains randomness from the kernel's CRNG, which is …

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 …