There's always the perl way:
perl -e 'while(1){print time . "\n"; sleep 1; }'
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Dylan Northrup - docx at io.com - http://www.io.com/~docx/
"Harder to work, harder to strive, hard to be glad to be alive, but it's
really worth it if you give it a try." -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'