Add tries to bithub-gen in case of server failure. - annna - Annna the nice friendly bot.
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 (DIR) commit a216b445324c2e13b1021a6f762bfd1690222c18
 (DIR) parent a62ea82b7b12d1d2d7ca105164b9cdacc7575539
 (HTM) Author: Annna Robert-Houdin <annna@bitreich.org>
       Date:   Fri,  7 Apr 2023 15:27:32 +0200
       
       Add tries to bithub-gen in case of server failure.
       
       Diffstat:
         M bithub-gen                          |      19 ++++++++++++++++---
       
       1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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 (DIR) diff --git a/bithub-gen b/bithub-gen
       @@ -4,9 +4,22 @@ export PATH="$PATH:/home/annna/bin"
        
        bithubarchive="/br/gopher/bithub/read_text"
        bithubbaseuri="gophers://bitreich.org/0/bithub/read_text"
       -essayurl="$(essay-gen)"
       -cd "${bithubarchive}"
       -essayfile="$(curl -s "${essayurl}" | sed -n "2p;" | tr ' /' '__').txt"
       +
       +essayfile=".txt"
       +maxtries=3
       +while [ "${essayfile}" = ".txt" ];
       +do
       +        [ $maxtries -eq 0 ] && exit 1
       +
       +        essayurl="$(essay-gen)"
       +        cd "${bithubarchive}"
       +        essayfile="$(curl -s "${essayurl}" | sed -n "2p;" | tr ' /' '__').txt"
       +        if [ "${essayfile}" = ".txt" ];
       +        then
       +                maxtries=$(($maxtries - 1))
       +                continue
       +        fi
       +done
        curl -s "${essayurl}" > "${essayfile}"
        
        printf "%s/%s\n" "${bithubbaseuri}" "${essayfile}"