On 2017-07-12 09:35, Bryan Dunphy wrote: > I have a shell script, originally created for Mac OS X. that waits for an > external drive to be mounted (by testing an “ls” of the volume’s root > directory for success) then runs an “rsync” command. How do I get the script > to be run repeatedly until successful exit under Cygwin? > > Here is the unmodified Mac OS version of the script: > > #!/bin/bash > if ls /Volumes/Shared >/dev/null 2>/dev/null > then > rsync -avz --compress-level=9 --delete-during --partial --exclude > 'cache/' \ > aleph.gutenberg.org::gutenberg /Volumes/Shared/Project-Gutenberg > exit 0 > else > exit 1 > fi
Plug your subject line into a web search and read the resulting hits. Then you don't have to wait 9 hours for hints. ;^> You could also run "man bash" and RTFM. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
