1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.git synced 2025-04-29 23:24:55 +02:00
tldr/pages/common/while.md
Managor 4f6fb6b173
while: clarify descriptions (#15232)
Co-authored-by: Sebastiaan Speck <12570668+sebastiaanspeck@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-12-26 23:44:04 +05:30

16 lines
447 B
Markdown

# while
> Simple shell loop that repeats while the return value remains zero.
> More information: <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_04_09>.
- Read `stdin` and perform an action on every line:
`while read line; do echo "$line"; done`
- Execute a command forever once every second:
`while :; do {{command}}; sleep 1; done`
- Execute a command until it fails:
`while {{command}}; do :; done`