Last Updated: 2024-04-19

I wanted to be able to reload my PHP Laravel REPL. But it did not have such a feature built in.

So instead I ran this command:

while true; do php artisan tinker; done

With this loop running, I could:

• hit Ctrl-D to reload the php artisan tinker shell (i.e. next iteration of the loop)
• Ctrl-C to exit out of this loop altogether (SIGINT)

What is Ctrl-D?

Ctrl-D is not a signal. It means EOF and it flushes the input typed so far - but without pressing enter. Basically it tells the current artisan REPL that I won't be typing any more commands, so it exits.