On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Nicholas Hall <ngharo_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <web_AT_apgwoz.com> wrote:
>> I wondered if I could do it in shell, but figured it might be too
>> tricky to do concisely
>
> $ while ! command; do continue; done; xmessage 'returned truthy'
>
Yes. You can do exactly that. But you *can't* do:
when -t "ssh user_AT_host" "xmessage 'Connected'"
which is the real reason I wrote this. With -t, xmessage 'Connected'
will be run when you get a prompt, e.g. the command didn't "time out"
/ die before 5 seconds (-n <seconds> to change that).
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Received on Wed Dec 11 2013 - 18:21:25 CET