sjmulder / retry

Persistently try to run a command

retry

Persistently try to run a command

retry [-w delay] [-c count] command ...

Invokes the given command until it succeeeds (or at most count times if given), waiting delay seconds between invocations (1 by default).

Exits with 0 if succesful, 1 if an error occurs, 2 if count is exceeded.

Installing

Should work on most Unix systems, including Linux, BSD and macOS.

make
make install   [DESTIDR=] [PREFIX=/usr/local] [MANPREFIX=PREFIX/man]
make uninstall [DESTIDR=] [PREFIX=/usr/local] [MANPREFIX=PREFIX/man]

Author

By Sijmen J. Mulder ([e-mail])