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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Loop exit control Post 302486722 by methyl on Monday 10th of January 2011 06:56:23 AM
Old 01-10-2011
One technique in "ksh" is to use a flag file.

Code:
while true
do
       my_procedure
       if [ -f /tmp/my_stop_flag ]
       then
                 rm /tmp/my_stop_flag
                 break
       fi
       sleep 60
done

To stop the loop.
touch /tmp/my_stop_flag

Also note that it is never necessary or desirable to end a "ksh" line in a semi-colon.
 

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IO::Async::Loop::Glib(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				IO::Async::Loop::Glib(3pm)

NAME
"IO::Async::Loop::Glib" - use "IO::Async" with Glib or GTK SYNOPSIS
use IO::Async::Loop::Glib; my $loop = IO::Async::Loop::Glib->new(); $loop->add( ... ); ... # Rest of GLib/Gtk program that uses GLib Glib::MainLoop->new->run(); Or $loop->loop_forever(); Or while(1) { $loop->loop_once(); } DESCRIPTION
This subclass of "IO::Async::Loop" uses the "Glib::MainLoop" to perform read-ready and write-ready tests. The appropriate "Glib::IO" sources are added or removed from the "Glib::MainLoop" when notifiers are added or removed from the set, or when they change their "want_writeready" status. The callbacks are called automatically by Glib itself; no special methods on this loop object are required. CONSTRUCTOR
$loop = IO::Async::Loop::Glib->new() This function returns a new instance of a "IO::Async::Loop::Glib" object. It takes no special arguments. METHODS
There are no special methods in this subclass, other than those provided by the "IO::Async::Loop" base class. $count = $loop->loop_once( $timeout ) This method calls the "iteration()" method on the underlying "Glib::MainContext". If a timeout value is supplied, then a Glib timeout will be installed, to interrupt the loop at that time. If Glib indicates that any callbacks were fired, then this method will return 1 (however, it does not mean that any "IO::Async" callbacks were invoked, as there may be other parts of code sharing the Glib main context. Otherwise, it will return 0. SEE ALSO
o Glib - Perl wrappers for the GLib utility and Object libraries o Gtk2 - Perl interface to the 2.x series of the Gimp Toolkit library AUTHOR
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> perl v5.14.2 2013-03-01 IO::Async::Loop::Glib(3pm)
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