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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# run - this script enters a infinite loop to ensure that
+# the socket server does not go down
+#
+# 7/14/18 Jeffery Russell
+
+while true
+do java -cp SteamFriendsGraph-0.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar net.jrtechs.www.App
+done
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