i spent too much time on this

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/bash

FILES="users.yaml users2.yaml users3.yaml"

OUTPUT_FOLDER=./files/

. venv/bin/activate

    # The log file where the output will be stored
LOG_FILE=./logs/users_$(date +%s).log
touch ${LOG_FILE}

log() {
    # Echo the input and use tee to append to the log file
    # "$@" expands to all the arguments passed to the function
    timestamp="[$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")]"
    echo "${timestamp}$@" | tee -a "${LOG_FILE}"
}

# Do the thing
for FILE in ${FILES}
do
    # The command to be attempted
    command_to_run="bdfr download ${OUTPUT_FOLDER} --no-dupes --opts ${FILE} --search-existing --submitted"

    # Maximum number of attempts
    max_attempts=3

    # Current attempt number
    attempt=1

    while [ $attempt -le $max_attempts ]; do
        log "(${FILE}) Attempt ${attempt}: Running restarting vpn."
        
        # reset vpn
        nordvpn d
        sleep 10
        nordvpn c United_States

        log "(${FILE}) Attempt ${attempt}: Running running BDFR."
        
        # do scrape
        $command_to_run
        
        # Check if the command succeeded
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
            log "(${FILE}) Attempt ${attempt}: Running BDFR succeeded."
            break
        fi

        # Increment the attempt counter
        ((attempt++))

        # be nice
        log "(${FILE}) Attempt ${attempt}: Running BDFR filed."
        log "(${FILE}) Sleeping to be nice to nord."
        sleep 60
    done

# be nice
log "Sleeping between files to be nice to nord."
sleep 60
done