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author | William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com> | 2019-03-27T18·27+0000 |
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committer | William Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com> | 2019-03-27T18·27+0000 |
commit | 79387acb96d3a5e5fa72c92ca50eee1b6ad5f88e (patch) | |
tree | 6722ece379984e1b543034d0baeeca5c1397e181 /configs | |
parent | 370f0346dea102b36b65f09678361b1bbd41256d (diff) |
Create generic loop fn
Might be useful for things like: ``` loop 'PAGER="" hgst' 1 y ``` ``` loop 'du -hs .' ``` ``` loop ll ```
Diffstat (limited to 'configs')
-rw-r--r-- | configs/shared/zsh/functions.zsh | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configs/shared/zsh/functions.zsh b/configs/shared/zsh/functions.zsh index ea12bf313fe8..ec64c2293a96 100644 --- a/configs/shared/zsh/functions.zsh +++ b/configs/shared/zsh/functions.zsh @@ -406,6 +406,28 @@ is_online() { fi } +loop() { + # Continuously loop `command` every `sleep_amt` interval. `sleep_amt` defaults + # to 1 second. Pass y/n for `should_clear` if you'd like to clear the screen + # at the end of each iteration. + # Usage: loop <command> <sleep_amt> <should_clear> + local command=$1; + local sleep_amt=${2:-1}; + local should_clear=${3:-n} + + # clear the screen before kicking things off + if [ $should_clear = y ]; then + clear + fi + + while true; do + eval $command && sleep $sleep_amt + if [ $should_clear = y ]; then + clear + fi + done +} + du_it_live() { # Outputs and refreshes the size of a directory's content. # Useful for watching a directory as large amounts of data are |