Continously run command under bash

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Sometimes you want to run a command forever, e.g. to compile a haml to html file on the console. Use this:

$ while(true) do haml index.haml index.html; sleep 1.5; done
Thomas Eisenbarth
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linux, unix
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Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2011-02-17 08:14)