How to Run a Command in an Endless Loop on Linux Servers

Sometimes it is necessary to execute a command in an endless loop on Linux servers.

For example, in our case, we needed to execute the PHP script jobs.php continuously until we pressed Ctrl+C.

Here is how we accomplished this with a single command. This method also works on Mac computers and in the Cygwin shell on Windows:

while true; do php jobs.php; done

Press Ctrl+C to stop the loop at any time.

This approach can be used for any command that you need to keep running repeatedly, not just PHP scripts.