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I want to automate an installation and I need to run the downloaded installer with gksu. I have tried:

attempt=0
  until
  gksu command; do
    attempt=$((attempt + 1))
    if [ "$attempt" -gt 3 ]; then
      exit 1
    fi
  done

but it doesn't exit until it reaches the third attempt. It doesn't matter if gksu has exited with exit code 0 or with a non zero exit code. What I would like to be happen is:
while gksu command's exit code is not 0 and attempt number is not 3 repeat gksu command. If exit code is not 0 but attempt number is 3, exit the whole script. If exit code is 0 leave cycle and continue processing the script.
How could I do that?

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If you have seq available, you could do:

for attempt in $(seq 1 3)
do
  gksu command && break
done

If seq is not available, but you have (and want to use) bash:

for((attempt=1;attempt<=3;attempt++))
do 
  gksu command && break
done

or even simpler (hat tip to drewbenn):

for attempt in {1..3} 
do
  gksu command && break
done
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  • for((attempt=1;attempt<=3;attempt++)) do gksu xampp-linux-x64-5.6.21-0-installer.run && break done 51: ../xampp-install.sh: Syntax error: Bad for loop variable Commented Sep 12, 2016 at 17:29
  • @drewbenn thanks! I'm going to trying it out after the script has downloaded the installer file. Commented Sep 12, 2016 at 17:33
  • @user275214 does xampp-install.sh specify something other than bash (or ksh or zsh) ? Commented Sep 12, 2016 at 17:46
  • No, it doesn't. I only created this script because i wanted to learn something other than PHP SQL or C# (these are what they teach in school). I didn't even think about publishing it, not to mention about rewriting it to other shells. Commented Sep 13, 2016 at 16:19

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