In bashbash:
bash -c 'while [ 0 ]; do echo "I will not automate this punishment in absurdum."; done'
(Echoecho could be replaced by any command...
Or in Perlperl:
perl -e 'for (;1;) {print "I will not automate this punishment in absurdum.\n"}'
Where print "I will not automate this punishment in absurdum.\n"print "I will not automate this punishment in absurdum.\n" could be replaced with "any" command surrounded with backticks (`).
And for a pause, add a sleepsleep statement inside the for loop.:
bash -c 'while [ 0 ]; do echo "I will not automate this punishment in absurdum."; sleep 1; done'
and
perl -e 'for (;1;) {print "I will not automate this punishment in absurdum.\n"; sleep 1}'