On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Vidiot wrote:
> > What's the best/safest way to loop a script over and over again?
> >
> > All it does is call a different program with arguments (it plays mp3
> >files) and I want it to loop and start again when it reaches the end.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > amp -p "file one.mp3"
> > amp -p "file two.mp3"
> > ...
>
> You can use a while loop, using a variable that is always true. It'll never
> end that way :-)
the best way is to just do:
while true ; do
...
done
the word "true" is a shell built-in which always returns a logical
value of true for the purposes of the loop.
rday
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