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
- Execute a command until it returns a non-zero value:
while {{command}}; do :; done