Retry a Bash command with timeout

Question

How to retry a bash command until its status is ok or until a timeout is reached?

My best shot (I\'m looking for something simpler):

NEXT_WAIT_TIME=0         


        

Answer 1

You can simplify things a bit by putting command right in the test and doing increments a bit differently. Otherwise the script looks fine:

NEXT_WAIT_TIME=0
until [ $NEXT_WAIT_TIME -eq 5 ] || command; do
    sleep $(( NEXT_WAIT_TIME++ ))
done
[ $NEXT_WAIT_TIME -lt 5 ]