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Doesn't the difference lie in whether you want to run the command then sleep, or sleep first and then run the command?

> "It does delay the first output though"

Could also do `while date;do sleep 1;done`

Yes, I was on about the reason for the delay.

that's clever, i've never thought of it, interesting considering how many while true;do ...;sleep X;done loops i've done

thanks for the tip, old habits die hard :)

If you want short

while :...