I had been having an issue getting a file from a central server halfway across the world and it kept failing every 5 minutes.
To remedy this I put a curl command inside a while loop and made it keep attempting to download the file until it successfully downloaded.
As a result, I came up with the below script, and it worked very nicely:
URL_TO_DOWNLOAD_FROM="http://URL.COM/download.zip"
FINAL_FILE_NAME="MyFile.zip"
EXIT_CODE=1
while [ $EXIT_CODE -ne 0 ]
do
echo "Downloading File - $FINAL_FILE_NAME from $URL_TO_DOWNLOAD_FROM ..."
rm -Rf $FINAL_FILE_NAME
curl $URL_TO_DOWNLOAD_FROM --output $FINAL_FILE_NAME
EXIT_CODE=$?
if [ $EXIT_CODE -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Download Failed! Retrying..."
fi
done
if [ $EXIT_CODE -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Download Finished!"
fi
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