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Old 07-18-2008
trey85stang trey85stang is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ikon View Post
You COULD:

until [ $status == 0 ]
do
somecommand someargs
status=$?
done

echo "Exited with status:$status"



but it would loop indefinitely if the command always failed. Would probabally want to put some limit to the number of times to retry.
Ill give this a try, Ill need to test it in my environment, this report is kind of heavy on the system so I will defiantly only need to make sure it runs 2x at the most