Shell Programming and Scripting

i am trying to write a script where in it will connect to remote servers and execute remote scripts to fetch some data and ftp it back to a main server. i would like to add a script where it will show some sort of status bar until such time that the expected files have been recieved.

something like:

Getting information on remote servers .................. done!

the "." will not stop until the script find those files (more than 1 file) and print the word "done!" when all of them have been received.

can someone give me an idea?

thanks.

sorry...

i just got the answer using...

until loop.

sorry for the inconvinience

Could you post your answer for the less enlightened or program challenged???

We are trying to create a DB here for users to search for answers.

Thanks bunches!!

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#

dot_stat() {

let count=0

until test -s "$expect_file"
do
echo ".\c"

let count=$count+1

if test $count -eq 30
then
echo
echo
echo "Some servers you are trying to fetch data is not responding!"
echo
echo "Try again later!"
echo
exit 1
fi

sleep 1
done

echo " done!" ;

}

echo "Fetching data "
rexec remote_server -l user command
dot_stat
echo
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Thanks,