This script is a generic wrapper for the While statement that will execute a condition a given number of max tries, waiting a given number of seconds in between.

This example will execute the “IsItDoneYet” function (that checks a hypothetical external factor) once every 5 seconds, a total of no more than 24 times, which will take approximately two minutes, not including function execution time.

PS > $condition = { IsItDoneYet }
PS > WhileTimeout 5 24 $condition

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