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Dev tools
command line utility
SHOW HN2013
20points
13comments
#995of 1,739 in 2013
Top 58%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Idea: 1 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful time saver over ad hoc shell one-liners
From 1 comment
This could be quite handy as need to do this sort of thing surprisingly often and usually resort to a shell script one-liner like this: ``` while true; do echo "hello world";…
laumars on HN
Objections
Equivalent to a bash while/until loop or watch; unclear why it is needed
From 3 comments
What's the difference between this and the bash '&&' operator? Except for the timebomb flag, I don't really see any difference. Please correct me if I got this wrong. The '&&'…
lipanski on HNWhat is the difference between this and 'while true; do cmd1 && cmd2; sleep 1; done'
chingjun on HNwatch -n 1 foo && echo "why does this exist?"
mphillips34 on HN
Requests
More examples of the -t flag
From 1 comment
Could you give some more examples of how you use `-t` ?
sciurus on HN
Questions
What is the difference from && and until loops
From 2 comments
What's the difference between this and the bash '&&' operator? Except for the timebomb flag, I don't really see any difference. Please correct me if I got this wrong. The '&&'…
lipanski on HNWhat is the difference between this and 'while true; do cmd1 && cmd2; sleep 1; done'
chingjun on HN
Alternatives named
watch
From 2 comments
This could be quite handy as need to do this sort of thing surprisingly often and usually resort to a shell script one-liner like this: ``` while true; do echo "hello world";…
laumars on HNwatch -n 1 foo && echo "why does this exist?"
mphillips34 on HN
bash while/until loops with && or sleep
From 2 comments
What is the difference between this and 'while true; do cmd1 && cmd2; sleep 1; done'
chingjun on HNIt looks to me more like ``` until cmd1 ; do sleep 1 ; done ; cmd2 ```
mooism2 on HN