
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 …
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 …
Endless loop when connected to OpenVPN - Unix & Linux Stack …
Feb 27, 2024 · I connected my university-vpn via openvpn on Windows, Ubuntu and Manjaro. Windows worked instantly, no configuration was needed. When using any Linux-System, …
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 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 …
Why does this endless loop not use up my system resources?
May 12, 2017 · 6 Your loop is starting an endless number of shells, but one after the other, not in parallel. The first time the loop runs, it runs bash, which starts a new shell and displays the …
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 …
Stop endless loop .sh script - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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What are the pros and cons of Vim and Emacs? [closed]
How would you compare these editors? What are the pros and cons of each? [note] This is not meant to be answered by those who "hate one and love another" or those who haven't used both.
How can I force /dev/random to block? - Unix & Linux Stack …
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, …