[mythtv-users] VHS Digitizing

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Thu Aug 20 15:36:47 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Steve Herber<herber at thing.com> wrote:
> True and false were created so you could say:
>
> while `true`
> do
>        echo whatever $?
>        sleep 1
> done
>
> Try cutting and pasting these, one at a time:
>
> while `true`; do echo whatever $?; sleep 1; done
>
> while `false`; do echo whatever $?; sleep 1; done

This is getting off topic a bit, but you really don't want to use
backquotes there.

while true
do
  yada yada yada....


Eric


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