Re: lftp note

[Alexander V. Lukyanov]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:28:29PM +0100, Enrico Mioso (@atlantide) wrote:
> Something strange in lftp!
> Noticeable with the following command:
>
> repeat -d 10s ls
>
> When lftp is not connected and ls returns immediately, the command is
> called a little too mucn on my system immediately.

I cannot reproduce it - it delays for 10 seconds as intended.

You can add an option to break the loop on failure condition:

    repeat -d 10s --while-ok ls

Note that ls prints from the cache by default, so probably you wanted rels.

--
   Alexander.