Repeating commands?

[Foxtrot]

Hey guys,

Was wondering if their was a way to repeat commands automagically from bash. For example if for what ever reason I want to issue

echo "Hello World!"

infinite times, how would I go about doing that?

Cheers,

-Foxtrot

[BlueWyvern]

im not sure about infinite, but you can make it quite a few with a for loop

This *SHOULD* do the trick for you, just set the ending number to something unfathomable

0 is your starting number, 1000000 is your ending number, 1 is your iteration

#!/bin/bash
for i in {0..1000000..1}
  do
     echo "Hello World"
done

OR (This would be infinite, but not 100% certain if it would work right) lol

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1=1 ]
do
echo "Hello World!"
done

Edited February 20, 2013 by BlueWyvern

[Jason Cooper]

You can also used

while true

in place of

while [1=1]

Logically the same but a little easier to read.

[Foxtrot]

Thanks!

#!/bin/bash
while [ 1=1 ]
do
echo "Hello World!"
done

did the trick!

Thanks again,

-Foxtrot