Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:03:31 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to write a condition in Bourne shell Message-ID: <200711050703.lA573V3q013117@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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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
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