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Terminating an infinite loop - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
To kill the outer loop I usually add a sleep command and press CTRL-C some more times: while :; do LONGTIME_COMMAND; sleep 1; done. Please notice: the colon behind while is interpreded as TRUE, so this is an endless loop.
bash - How to do nothing forever in an elegant way? - Unix
I have a program which produces useful information on stdout but also reads from stdin. I want to redirect its standard output to a file without providing anything on standard input. So far, so goo...
Endless pulseaudio error logging: failed to acquire autospawn lock ...
Aug 7, 2011 · I encountered the following in /var/log/syslog on Ubuntu 14.04. Mar 24 09:41:19 ripple pulseaudio[4838]: [autospawn] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/112/pulse): No such file or directory Mar 24 09:41:19 ripple pulseaudio[4838]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock. Mar 24 09:41:19 ripple …
Every time I boot into Ubuntu, it shuts down immediately and
Apr 18, 2021 · I am trying to boot into Ubuntu system 20.04 LTS. However, every time I turn on, for about 5 seconds loading something, then it suddenly shuts down. It then automatically restarts, loading and shu...
Endless data loop from dev/ttyUSB while sending AT commands
I have problem sending AT commands to my USB modem. At first I tried php-serial class, but when I was reading data, I got endless loop with strange data. Then I tried to debug problem and opened pu...
Endless loop when connected to OpenVPN - Unix & Linux Stack …
Feb 27, 2024 · I connected my university-vpn via openvpn on Windows, Ubuntu and Manjaro. Windows worked instantly, no configuration was needed. When using any Linux-System, connecting to the vpn seems to work but...
Purpose of /dev/zero? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Jan 31, 2013 · 64 /dev/zero is a special file (in this case, a pseudo-device) that provides an endless stream of null characters (so hex 0x00)? That's why your cat is not outputting anything (but try running it through od (octal dump)).
Bash while loop stop after a successful curl request
Apr 9, 2021 · Also, in while [ true ], the test checks if true is a non-empty string. It obviously is, so this does work in giving an endless loop. But [ false ] would also be always true, so a test like that is perhaps a bit misleading. Could use while true; do instead.
For loop and reading a text file - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Mar 10, 2023 · Thanks! more excellent resources and responses! To be honest, I started out with the While IFS=, but then got so confused I tried switching to a for loop to see if it made any differences. The for loop is where I ended up after trying for too much time. I plan to consume all of the responses here and make things better while learning. Appreciate the reply!! and …