May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Running a command until it succeeds
Sometimes a command can only succeed when certain conditions are met. For example, you can only download a file after the file is created. In such cases, one might want to run a command repeatedly until it succeeds.