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From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: How to write a condition in Bourne shell
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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?

TIA,

Olivier