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author | David Adam (zanchey) <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> | 2013-05-12 15:56:01 +0800 |
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committer | ridiculousfish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com> | 2013-05-13 01:48:20 -0700 |
commit | 1287b9d82382bf22e16edda67eae755f07397f2e (patch) | |
tree | 811814b029d65ac11a193e616ca4a71d216dbe0c /doc_src/while.txt | |
parent | 91aab03b90a6b583a3c0ecff5b015c6066d34f28 (diff) |
Help cleanup
Large list of changes, including formatting and typos for most commands.
More substantive changes have been made to alias, bind, block, break,
builtin, case, cd, commandline, count, else, emit, fish_config, funced,
function, functions, history, math, mimedb, nextd, not, popd, prevd,
pushd, pwd, random, read, set, set_color, switch, test, trap, type,
ulimit, umask, and while.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc_src/while.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | doc_src/while.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc_src/while.txt b/doc_src/while.txt index 1ec643d2..496c36c2 100644 --- a/doc_src/while.txt +++ b/doc_src/while.txt @@ -4,16 +4,18 @@ <tt>while CONDITION; COMMANDS...; end</tt> \subsection while-description Description -The <tt>while</tt> builtin causes fish to continually execute CONDITION and -execute COMMANDS as long as CONDITION returned with status 0. If CONDITION is -false on the first time, COMMANDS will not be executed at all. Hints: use -<a href="#begin"><tt>begin; ...; end</tt></a> for complex conditions; more +<tt>while</tt> repeatedly executes <tt>CONDITION</tt>, and if the exit status +is 0, then executes <tt>COMMANDS</tt>. + +If the exit status of \c CONDITION is non-zero on the first iteration, +\c COMMANDS will not be executed at all. + +Use <a href="#begin"><tt>begin; ...; end</tt></a> for complex conditions; more complex control can be achieved with <tt>while true</tt> containing a <a href="#break">break</a>. \subsection while-example Example <tt>while test -f foo.txt; echo file exists; sleep 10; end</tt> - -causes fish to print the line 'file exists' at 10 second intervals as long as +outputs 'file exists' at 10 second intervals as long as the file foo.txt exists. |