rpt - Easily repeat a shell command

Repeat provides a simple way to repeat COUNT times a command CMD.

rpt -n COUNT CMD

My claim is that it is simpler to write than the following :

i=0
while [ $i -lt COUNT]; do
        CMD
        i=$((i+1))
done

Especially from the command line. The use of rpt also makes the execution slightly faster, but performance is not the main goal.

Installation

None, except the C standard library.

To compile, run :

make

To install, run :

make install