SIMPLEVISOR-LOOP(1)

📦 version 1.2, in epel 9

💖 simplevisor-loop — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the simplevisor-loop(1) page from the simplevisor-loop man page, and honestly? it's giving "tiny program, huge main character energy." let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

simplevisor-loop — runs whatever command you hand it, in a loop, over and over 🔁

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

simplevisor-loop [OPTIONS] COMMAND...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: by default this program runs the command you gave it in a loop, forever, until the command fails — and by "fails" we mean it returns a non-zero exit status. that's the whole stop condition. iconic, honestly 💅

you can also:

  • make it sleep between consecutive executions of the command (peep the --sleep option 👀)
  • make it stop after a set number of executions (peep the --count option 👀)

that's it. that's the program. lowkey perfect.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --count, -c INTEGER — stop after the command has been executed this many times. like, "okay bestie you've done enough, wrap it up" 💀
  • --daemon — detach simplevisor-loop so it becomes a daemon running in the background; debug, warning and error messages get sent to syslog. it's out here living its own life offline, no cap 🧚
  • --debug, -d — show debugging information. turn this on when you need to know everything 🔍
  • --help, -h, -? — show some help. we love a supportive little flag 🤝
  • --manual, -m — show this manual. that's literally this page, hi, you're here 📖
  • --pidfile PATH — use this pid file. this is how other instances find each other, iykyk 🪪
  • --quit — tell another instance of simplevisor-loop to quit. which instance? the one identified by its pid file, as specified by the --pidfile option. passive-aggressive but make it unix 😌
  • --sleep, -s NUMBER — sleep for this many seconds between executions of the command; can be fractional. yes, decimals are allowed, go wild with your 0.5s ⏰
  • --status — get the status of another instance of simplevisor-loop (again, identified by its pid file, as specified by the --pidfile option); the exit code will be zero if the instance is alive and non-zero otherwise. built-in vibe check fr fr ✅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Lionel Cons <http://cern.ch/lionel.cons>

Copyright (C) CERN 2012-2016

and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 — the simplevisor-loop man page, dated 2016-06-27, brought to you straight from the source. mwah, go loop something 💜🎀

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