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Re: repeat indefinitely?

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From: Atom Smasher <atom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: repeat indefinitely?
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:55:56 +1300 (NZDT)
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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 stuffin that iteration of the loop.



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  - From: sam reckoner

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