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I was recently in the market for one of these! I ended up going with https://github.com/dbohdan/recur due to the nice stdout and stdin handling. Though this has stdout/stderr pattern matching for failures which is nice too!

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Cool, I hadn't seen this one yet! Using Starlark is a very good idea. I ended up writing some tiny DSLs to specify certain things like status code patterns and durations; using an off the shelf DSL like Starlark would've saved a lot of effort.

Very nice work!

I am very far from expert, but understood expect: https://linux.die.net/man/1/expect to be the "swiss army knife" for this type of thing.

I'll confess I've never used `expect`, but I think `expect` is for interactive commands. I think if you were going to write retry logic in bash you would pipe it to `grep` and examine the return code. If `grep` doesn't find any matches, it'll exit with a status code of 1.

I'd never heard of the `wish` command shell (discussed briefly in that document) but you can always rely on the Tcl community to find a great pun.

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