On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 01:19:17PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > What about a loop looking for a file every 1 second, and exiting after X > seconds if no file is found. It should handle more load while exiting > as quickly as possible. I guess something like this should work: --- a/test-server-client 2017-07-07 11:16:36.000000000 +0200 +++ b/test-server-client 2017-07-07 15:21:45.881225852 +0200 @@ -29,9 +29,13 @@ find /var/lib/sitesummary -if find /var/lib/sitesummary | grep ether- ; then - echo success: found entry -else - echo error: did not find entry - exit 1 -fi +for i in $(seq 0 10) ; do + if find /var/lib/sitesummary | grep ether- ; then + echo success: found entry + exit 0 + fi + sleep 1 +done + +echo error: did not find entry after waiting for 10 seconds. +exit 1 Wolfgang
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