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Hi Stephane,looks good to me. Thanks a bunch. I put this code in a shell script and in the shell script I am trying to call this function but I get line:6 command:retry not found. (function definition of retry starts at line 6 in my script).

java_enthu
– java_enthu

2013-08-19 11:44:22 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2013 at 11:44
Thanks it worked. I did not know that method should be declared only at the top. :-). Merci mille fois.

java_enthu
– java_enthu

2013-08-19 11:57:05 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2013 at 11:57
Stefan : I've another scenario : SCRIPT_FILES =ssh $USER@HOST find $SCRIPTS -maxdepth 2 -type f for SCRIPT in $SCRIPT_FILES ..... Can I use the same retry function here also , I mean : SCRIPT_FILES =5 20 ssh $USER@HOST find $SCRIPTS -maxdepth 2 -type f ???

java_enthu
– java_enthu

2013-08-19 16:33:06 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2013 at 16:33

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