I am having trouble coming up with the right combination of semicolons and/or braces. I\'d like to do this, but as a one-liner from the command line:
while [
while true; do foo; sleep 2; done
By the way, if you type it as a multiline (as you are showing) at the command prompt and then call the history with arrow up, you will get it on a single line, correctly punctuated.
$ while true
> do
> echo "hello"
> sleep 2
> done
hello
hello
hello
^C
$ while true; do echo "hello"; sleep 2; done