How to write a condition in Bourne shell

[Tino Engel]

while [ $? -ne 0 -a $retry -gt 0 ]
do
   ...
done

should do the work 

Am Montag 05 November 2007 07:03 schrieb Olivier Nicole:
> Hi,
>
> I am a lame Bourne sheel programmer, how to write:
>
>     while [ ( $? -ne 0 ) -a ( $retry -gt 0 ) ] ; do
>
> that should execute as long as $? is not null and $retry is greater
> than 0?
>
> TIA,
>
> Olivier
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