Writing infinite bash loop

Question

How to write an infinite loop echoing numbers from 1 to infinite in bash. I am using a for loop but it is being killed by bash on using value more than 100000000.

#!/bin/bash
for a in {1..100000000..1}
do
  echo "$a"
done

any alternative for it?

Answer 1

Have you tried doing a while loop?

#!/bin/bash

num=0;

while :
do
    num=$((num+1))
    echo "$num"
done