well, you could implement this with shell while loop (while not (command) do; done), but it's great to have this as utility. Instead of passing a second argument, you could return zero and and it in shell when "command" && echo "yup! :D"
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <w...@apgwoz.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Patrick <201009-suckl...@haller.ws> wrote: >> On 2013-12-11 11:31, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: >>> Maybe one of you will stop laughing long enough to find it useful. >> >> So why isn't this a standard unix utility? > > I'm certainly not smart enough to know why people do or don't do > things. Either it's not generally useful, people have done this > another way with existing tools (and I'm not smart enough to have > thought of it) or no one in their right mind would ever want to do > that! > > -- > http://apgwoz.com >
