How to repeat a bash shell script until success

I have a shell script, originally created for Mac OS X. that waits for an external drive to be mounted (by testing an “ls” of the volume’s root directory for success) then runs an “rsync” command. How do I get the script to be run repeatedly until successful exit under Cygwin? Here is the unmo

Need Help Identifying X based packages

I need to install a CLI only version of cygwin. How can I identify X based packages so as not to accidentally install them? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

CygWin DLL linking and the number of files that have to be distributed

I used to be able to compile Application "X" and give it to someone without CygWin by just giving them "X.exe". However, now it complains it can't find one or more DLLs. I'm assuming this is because CygWin switched from static to dynamic linking by default. How do I get it to go back to stat