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Date:      Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:15:36 +0000
From:      Tino Engel <elrap@web.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Subject:   Re: How to write a condition in Bourne shell
Message-ID:  <200711052115.44012.elrap@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <200711050703.lA573V3q013117@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <200711050703.lA573V3q013117@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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while [ $? -ne 0 -a $retry -gt 0 ]
do
   ...
done

should do the work=20

Am Montag 05 November 2007 07:03 schrieb Olivier Nicole:
> 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
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