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On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 19:24+0100, Michael Schuster wrote:

> while [ 1 ]; do
>     do_stuff
>     sleep 600
> done

This should be even better:

while true; do
    do_stuff
    sleep 600
done

-- 
Trond.