Re: Is there some syntax for executing {} for 1..Inf?

[Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen]

On 7 December 2017 at 13:28, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen <traxplayer@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7 December 2017 at 00:37, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I recently had a use-case for:
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>>     parallel 'cmd {}' ::: {1..Inf}
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> Maybe something like this:
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> yes | cat -n | cut -f1 | parallel ' cmd {} '
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There are of course many variants but if you prefore perl:
yes |  perl -ne ' print "$.\n" '

Regards

Martin