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authorEuAndreh <eu@euandre.org>2023-04-12 08:15:20 -0300
committerEuAndreh <eu@euandre.org>2023-04-12 08:15:20 -0300
commitc6188975d2da6c1696c4433f6fce8ae4c9a6ac38 (patch)
tree613545634bc999385d13ecb107d2cce113ba11c4 /bin/untill
parentbin/: Add trailing semicolor to Perl heredocs (diff)
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bin/: Make help string more consistent across several executables
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diff --git a/bin/untill b/bin/untill
index 738b5bb..9980c81 100755
--- a/bin/untill
+++ b/bin/untill
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -eu
usage() {
cat <<-'EOF'
Usage:
- until [-m MAX] [-n SECONDS] -- COMMAND...
+ until [-m MAX] [-n SECONDS] COMMAND...
until -h
EOF
}
@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@ usage() {
help() {
cat <<-'EOF'
+
Options:
-n SECONDS the amount of seconds to sleep between
attempts (default: 5)
-m MAX the maximum number of attempts (default: unlimited)
-h, --help show this message
+ COMMAND the shell command to be executed
+
Runs COMMAND until it eventually succeeds, trying atmost MAX
times. Sleep SECONDS between attempts.