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 …

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...

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 …

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 …

Aug 6, 2025 · After a recent update, kate seems to fork a copy of itself, presumably with some parameter which prevents an endless recursion, and then exits. Presumably this was intended to …

Sep 16, 2024 · The familiar Vixie Cron daemon uses the integers 0 through 7 to designate the days of the week, from Sunday to Sunday (both 0 and 7 are Sunday). A schedule with 2-7 in the day-of-week …

Jan 27, 2015 · I'm using git. I did a normal merge, but it keeps asking this: # Please enter a commit message to explain why this merge is necessary, # especially if it merges an updated upstream into …

Jun 25, 2021 · I have a directory full of mp3s - /home/pi/Desktop/Music - and I want to be able to shuffle all the songs in the dir, so when I use sox to convert them into wma files on-the-fly, they will all be

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...

Sep 1, 2025 · Wikipedia suggests "Endless OS", but I'm always wary of distros that I haven't heard of; they typically have problems that noone has heard of before, too ;) But you could give it a try if all the …