Keep retrying a bash command until it fails

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This week I noticed a test was flaky, and was occasionally failing in CI. So I wanted to re-run my script until it failed. I had no clue how to do this, so after a bit of trying, I got the following script. This keeps running vendor/bin/phpunit until it fails. You can save it as run.sh and then just run sh ./run.sh in your terminal, and it will keep running. #!/bin/sh set -e while [ true ] do…

#!/bin/sh

set -e
while [ true ] do
 vendor/bin/phpunit
done

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