fault toleratant shell scripts

[Walter Vaughan]

I just ran across this. I'm not even a newbie-level
shell scripter, but this makes huge sense to me...
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~thain/research/ftsh/

The manual is does a better selling job
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~thain/research/ftsh/ftsh-2_0_3/doc/ftsh.html

I especially like the time and cycle limits.

I have not used, nor installed, but I am sure someone
on this list has needed something just like this for ages.

--
Walter