How to loop a simple batch file utilizing ECHO?

Question

I am attempting to achieve the effect of a batch file that does something similar to the following concept:

:start
ECHO 1
ECHO 2
ECHO 3
ECHO 4
ECHO 5
goto start

That is how I would make a batch file in Windows, but I am new to Linux, and would like to achieve a similar idea here in this operating system.

while true ; do echo 1 ; echo 2 ; echo 3 ; echo 4 ; echo 5 ; done — FedKad, Nov 23 '19 at 11:33
goto is very bad programming practice. Learn about the control loops in bash. — vanadium, Nov 23 '19 at 13:01

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 23 '19 at 19:56

In bash scripting you do not have gotos; you should use a while loop. For the while loop to run endlessly, you can use the true command which returns status of 0 (meaning successful run of a command).

So, you can create your "endless" loop like this:

while true ; do
  echo 1
  echo 2
  echo 3
  echo 4
  echo 5
done

How to loop a simple batch file utilizing ECHO?

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