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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting recursion too deep Post 78294 by reborg on Monday 18th of July 2005 03:18:06 PM
Old 07-18-2005
Why are you recursing?

There is absolutely no need to do so, and if the file never exists you are indeed in an infinte loop.

Code:
function chk_for_file
{
while [[ ! -f file ]] ; do
     sleep <some number of seconds>
done

<do whatever>
}

 

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SLEEP(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  SLEEP(3)

NAME
sleep - sleep for the specified number of seconds SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds); DESCRIPTION
sleep() makes the calling thread sleep until seconds seconds have elapsed or a signal arrives which is not ignored. RETURN VALUE
Zero if the requested time has elapsed, or the number of seconds left to sleep, if the call was interrupted by a signal handler. CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001. BUGS
sleep() may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm(2) and sleep() is a bad idea. Using longjmp(3) from a signal handler or modifying the handling of SIGALRM while sleeping will cause undefined results. SEE ALSO
alarm(2), nanosleep(2), signal(2), signal(7) COLOPHON
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