Bash: infinite sleep (infinite blocking)

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watain picture watain · May 29, 2010 · Viewed 95.2k times · Source

I use startx to start X which will evaluate my .xinitrc. In my .xinitrc I start my window manager using /usr/bin/mywm. Now, if I kill my WM (in order to f.e. test some other WM), X will terminate too because the .xinitrc script reached EOF. So I added this at the end of my .xinitrc:

while true; do sleep 10000; done

This way X won't terminate if I kill my WM. Now my question: how can I do an infinite sleep instead of looping sleep? Is there a command which will kinda like freeze the script?

Best regards

Answer

Donarsson picture Donarsson · Feb 28, 2014

sleep infinity does exactly what it suggests and works without cat abuse.

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