[X-Unix] Bash scripting Question

[Brian Medley]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:11:06AM -0500, Russell McGaha wrote:

Perhaps:

    #!/bin/bash
    
    until command; do sleep 1; done

> 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
> 
> PS. I'm on the digests so PLEASE cc me directly

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