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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH loop inside a loop question Post 302453410 by Klashxx on Wednesday 15th of September 2010 07:14:14 AM
Old 09-15-2010
Try this:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh

RESULT=`/usr/local/bin/myutility`
COUNT=0

while [ "${RESULT}." = "0000." ]
do
    (( COUNT += 1 ))
   
    if (( COUNT <= 20 ))
    then 
        RESULT=`/usr/local/bin/myutility`
    else
       break
    fi
done

 

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Swatch::Threshold(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    Swatch::Threshold(3pm)

NAME
Swatch::Threshold - Perl extension for thresholding in swatch(1) SYNOPSIS
use Swatch::Threshold; &Swatch::threshold( SWID => <int>, TYPE => <limit|threshold|both>, TRACK_BY => <key>, # like an IP addr COUNT => <int>, SECONDS => <int> ); SWATCH SYNTAX
threshold track_by=<key>, type=<limit|threshold|both>, count=<int>, seconds=<int> DESCRIPTION
SWID is swatch's internal ID number for the watchfor block TYPE can be limit, threshold, or both Limit - Alert on the 1st COUNT events during the time interval, then ignore events for the rest of the time interval. Threshold - Alert every COUNT times we see this event during the time interval. Both Alert once per time interval after seeing COUNT occurrences of the event, then ignore any additional events during the time interval. SECONDS is the time interval AUTHOR
E. Todd Atkins, todd.atkins@stanfordalumni.org SEE ALSO
perl(1), swatch(1). perl v5.10.0 2006-07-21 Swatch::Threshold(3pm)
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