On 2007-11-05 14:03, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a lame Bourne sheel programmer, how to write:
>
> while [ ( $? -ne 0 ) -a ( $retry -gt 0 ) ] ; do
>
> that should execute as long as $? is not null and $retry is greater
> than 0?
Try something like...
retry=0
done=-0
while [ $done -eq 0 ] && [ $retry -lt 10 ]; do
run_some_other_stuff_here
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
done=1
fi
done
if [ $done -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Failed after $retry attempts."
fi
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