[Gloucs] shell script

[Will Roe]

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Hi,

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:03:34PM +0000 or thereabouts, Guy Edwards wrote:
> Hi,
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> I've got the following shell script I've cobbled together, it's not
> working though.
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> I want to open and close a program a number of times (I've used ls as an
> example here but it's a bigger program)
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> -----------------
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> #!/bin/bash
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> opens=3D"0"			// set the value of opens to 0
opens=3D0
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> echo "Starting run"
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> while ($opens < 5); do		// while opens is less than 5 do....
while [ $opens -lt 5 ] ; do
>         ls			// command name
>         $$=3D$current		// store its process ID
current=3D$$
> 	sleep 10		// give program time to finish starting
>         kill $current		// kill the process=20
>         opens=3D$opens+1		// add one to the number of opens

that should be opens=3D$(($opens+1))

> 	echo "\nOpened program $opens times" 	// give feedback
> done
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> return 0

If that doesn't work, I'll eat my cat...oh sorry...hat ;)

Will
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> Could anyone point me in roughly the right direction?
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> Guy
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