markdown-link-check-with-retry.sh

#!/bin/bash -e

# this script helps to reduce sporadic link check failures by retrying at a file-by-file level

retry_count=3

for file in "$@"; do
  for i in $(seq 1 $retry_count); do
    if markdown-link-check --config "$(dirname "$0")/markdown-link-check-config.json" \
                           "$file"; then
      break
    elif [[ $i -eq $retry_count ]]; then
      exit 1
    fi
    sleep 5
  done
done