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[bash] Continue to attempt running a command until it succeeds, or a specified number of tries.

Posted 08-12-2014 at 10:56 PM by goumba
Inspired by the dsc in his post, http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...og.php?b=36164, I decided to try and get the number of tries part working, and here's what I came up with:

Code:
#!/bin/bash                                                                     
set -x # remove/comment when you no longer wish to see debugging output

case $1 in
    [0-9]*)
        max=$1
        # shift so that $@ only contains the command we're interested
...
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