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Bash retry function

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# Retry a command up to a specific numer of times until it exits successfully,
# with exponential back off.
#
# $ retry 5 echo Hello
# Hello
#
# $ retry 5 false
# Retry 1/5 exited 1, retrying in 1 seconds...
# Retry 2/5 exited 1, retrying in 2 seconds...
# Retry 3/5 exited 1, retrying in 4 seconds...
# Retry 4/5 exited 1, retrying in 8 seconds...
# Retry 5/5 exited 1, no more retries left.
#
function retry {
local retries=$1
shift
local count=0
until "$@"; do
exit=$?
wait=$((2 ** $count))
count=$(($count + 1))
if [ $count -lt $retries ]; then
echo "Retry $count/$retries exited $exit, retrying in $wait seconds..."
sleep $wait
else
echo "Retry $count/$retries exited $exit, no more retries left."
return $exit
fi
done
return 0
}
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