repeat indefinitely?

repeat indefinitely?

[sam reckoner]

instead of:

% repeat 1000;do; something; done

is it possible to do

% repeat  Infinity; do ; something; done

and then kill it with Ctrl+C or something?

thanks.

Re: repeat indefinitely?

[Mikael Magnusson]

2008/10/22 sam reckoner <sam.reckoner@gmail.com>:
> instead of:
>
> % repeat 1000;do; something; done
>
> is it possible to do

while true; do something; done

> and then kill it with Ctrl+C or something?
>
> thanks.

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Mikael Magnusson

Re: repeat indefinitely?

[Ali Polatel]

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sam reckoner yazmış:
> instead of:
> 
> % repeat 1000;do; something; done
> 
> is it possible to do
> 
> % repeat  Infinity; do ; something; done
> 
> and then kill it with Ctrl+C or something?
> 
> thanks.
> 

while true; do ; something; done

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Regards,
Ali Polatel

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Re: repeat indefinitely?

[Atom Smasher]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, sam reckoner wrote:

> is it possible to do
>
> % repeat Infinity; do ; something; done
>
> and then kill it with Ctrl+C or something?
==================

while :
do
 	stuff
done

you may have to hold ^C until you kill the wile-loop, not just the stuff 
in that iteration of the loop.


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