How the Sleep function will work?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,

I am new to Unix , there i am facing one problem with sleep command. that is ..
in while loop i have defined sleep function ..

my condition is like this

while [ 1 -le 0 ]  #i knew this is infinite loop
do

sleep 200
echo "hello "

done

.

this condition will never become .. true .. so.. my Question is how long this sleep condition keep on checking every 2 mints.. like .. a day or two days.
or the sleep function keep on executing ?

please any one can suggest me

Thanks
Sree

2

First, don't bump your questions just because you want a fast answer. See Rule #4 (yes, the rules are mandatory)

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3

if you already know that it is an infinite loop ,then i think it makes no sense to ask this question .you can simply execute it on your machine..

4

Not only do I not see an infinite loop anywhere, I see no loop at all. If the condition tested is always false, there won't even be a single iteration.

Regards,
Alister