RESPAWN(1)

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πŸ’… RESPAWN(1) πŸ’…

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for respawn β€” yes, that respawn. It’s giving β€œrun it back” energy, and honestly? iconic. 🫢


🌸 NAME 🌸

respawn β€” spawn the given command repeatedly. periodt. πŸ’–

πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

respawn [-l fifo] [-d N] cmd [args...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so respawn spawns the given cmd in a new session repeatedly. That’s the whole plot. It keeps your command coming back like it has main character energy. πŸ‘‘ No cap.

πŸŽ€ OPTIONS πŸŽ€

  • -d β€” sets the delay between invocations of cmd. It defaults to 0. So yeah, zero delay is the default, bestie β€” act accordingly. πŸ“
  • -l β€” listen on the specified fifo for writes. For each write, spawn a new instance of cmd. This can be used in conjunction with a process supervisor to restart a particular program. The -l and -d options are incompatible. All writes are discarded. πŸ’€
⚠️ bestie please clock the incompatibility: -l and -d do not go together. Not a vibe. Not allowed. 🚫
🫢 also: all writes are discarded. literally all of them. πŸ™ˆ

πŸŽ€ that’s the page! source/version: ubase 0.1 Β· date: February 2, 2015 β€” mwah, bye bestie πŸ’‹
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