From: Kaz Kylheku <920-082-4242@kylheku.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to repeat a bash shell script until success
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <baa10938eeb61fab4da0809abf56897f@mail.kylheku.com> (raw)
On 14.07.2017 10:34, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2017-07-14 11:07, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>> while ! program args ... ; do
>> sleep 1
>> done
>
> Has everyone forgotten there is also an until loop, supported by at
> least sh,
> dash, bash, [m]ksh:
I've forgotten that at least twice. (I don't remember the exact number
of times.)
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2017-07-14 19:23 Kaz Kylheku [this message]
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2017-07-14 0:16 Bryan Dunphy
2017-07-14 1:12 ` Brian Inglis
2017-07-14 5:31 ` Gary Johnson
2017-07-14 13:06 ` Gary Johnson
2017-07-14 17:07 ` cyg Simple
2017-07-15 18:40 ` Sorin Adrian Savu
2017-07-17 17:41 ` cyg Simple
2017-07-17 17:46 ` Ian Lambert via cygwin
2017-07-14 17:34 ` Kaz Kylheku
2017-07-14 19:20 ` Brian Inglis
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