title: Why is this bash script running over and over and over?
body: <p>This script has somehow gotten stuck in a loop where it is starting over and over and over.  </p>
  
  <p>Here is the script.</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/bin/bash
  # usage  decimator.sh "$1" "$2"
  echo $1
  echo $2
  bin/decimator.sh --pdfinfile "$1" --outdir scr --tldr "$2"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the history where it got started. </p>
  
  <pre><code> 1997  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   1998  git pull
   1999  lart ~/pagekicker-community/test/data/
   2000  cp ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf ~/pagekicker-community/test/data .
   2001  cp ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf ~/pagekicker-community/test/data/.
   2002  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2003  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2004  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2005  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2006  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2007  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2008  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2009  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2010  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2011  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
   2012  ../test/decimator-test.sh ../test/data/Altmetrics_for_LibrariansAltmetric.pdf "dumbing down Altmetrics"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I did a system restart and I did ps aux | grep test to see if the process is there. No joy.</p>
  
  <p>It's still doing it, a thousand history lines later...</p>