tldr/pages/common/while.md

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while

Simple shell loop. 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