Powershell Loop

Question

Guys,
I would like to create a script which does the following.
Search a file in d:\folder\test\
If it finds it, send-email and finish.
If it doesn't find the file, retry again every 10 minutes for an hour or retry for a fixed number of times before finishing.
I understand how to do the initial stuff ( search file send email etc), but i require some help with setting up the loop to keep retrying until it is successful or finishes.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi,
Here's an example you can build from:
$count = 0
Do {
Write-Host "Counter is $count"
$count++
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
} Until ($count -eq 5)
EDIT: Slow on the submit button, see clayman2's post above.
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Also, please keep in mind that with my example, if the file never exists, you will run the loop indefinitely, so you may also want to look at Mike's example, where he uses the Until rather than the While, and has a counter, that is incremented each run, and
if that counter reachers a specific number, the loop will stop. My Do While loop will only stop when that file actually exists.
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