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 …

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 to …

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

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 …

Feb 5, 2024 · About the terminology: the X Server is a server because it serves the requests sent by the X Client - your X program. X is an exciting system if you enjoy trawling through endless configuration …

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...

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 …

Is there any elegant method/technology-to-use/hack in linux, to achieve such file continuously written is at maximum N bytes long and always contains only last written data (sequentially)? This means no …