On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 11:23:13AM -0400, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote:
> I am trying to tell if a program is passing back an error in a Bash
> script. I would like to branch on receipt of the error to a wait
> statement that will give me about 20 seconds and then retry.
>
> My trouble is I cannot remember how to detect the error and how to
> make the shell wait a definite amount of time. Can anyone help me?
Arrgh - your headers are messed up!
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:23:13 -0400
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$? is the return status of the most recent process (which I'm not using),
: is true.
while :; do
command && break
sleep 20
done
Adrian
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