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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

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