[X-Unix] Bash scripting Question

[Russell McGaha]

Lasse;
	Okay, THANKS.  uhh could/would you explain what's going on there??


Thanks again
Russell

On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Lasse wrote:

> Hi Russell,
>
> this should do it
>
> 		while	[ $x -ne 0 ]; do
> 			fmsadmin status Clients
> 		done
>
> Cheers
> /L
>
> Den 22/08/2006 kl. 17.11 skrev Russell McGaha:
>
>> Folks;
>> 	I've got a situation where I running a script and need to wait  
>> till the output of a command is null:
>>
>> ex.
>> 	NotNull = true
>> 	While NotNull
>> do
>> 	fmsadmin status Clients   #[returns a list of connected clients;  
>> I'd like to got thru
>> 							  this loop until either the output of the command is null or
>> 							  About 2-5 minutes have gone by]#
>> done
>>
>> Can anyone give ANY pointers or examples on how to do this?
>>
>> Russell
>>
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