Advice needed on a simple loop [solved]

[pepsi_max2k]

I'll kill myself for not knowing this but... I wanna create a loop based on the outcome of a query (wl assoclist) that just runs code if it's negative (= "") and if not, sleeps then re-runs the loop. so far I have a very simple 1 line command that does the first part:

#!/bin/sh

if [ "`/usr/sbin/wl -i wl0.1 assoclist`" = "" ]; then
/usr/bin/killall chilli && /usr/sbin/chilli --conf /jffs/chilli.conf;
fi

and the only way i can think of doing the second bit is expanding it to about 20 lines with a separate function and increasing a counter. which just sounds too much to be the best way of doing it. any tips?

thanks.

edit: oh hangon...

#!/bin/sh

KILLCHILLI=0

while ($KILLCHILLI == 0) {
   if [ "`/usr/sbin/wl -i wl0.1 assoclist`" = "" ]
   then
        /usr/bin/killall chilli && /usr/sbin/chilli --conf /jffs/chilli.conf
        $KILLCHILLI = 1
   else
        sleep 600
   fi
}

edit: argghh...

#!/bin/sh

KILLCHILLI=0

while ($KILLCHILLI == 0)
do
   if [ "`/usr/sbin/wl -i wl0.1 assoclist`" = "" ]; then
      echo "$KILLCHILLI"
      KILLCHILLI=1
      echo "end loop"
   else
      sleep 60
   fi
done

/tmp # /tmp/killchilli2
/tmp/killchilli2: /tmp/killchilli2: 14: 0: not found


EDIT: took me half a day but finally got there, and i know i should prolly do a do while instead of while do but i'm not spending another 6 hours over it

#!/bin/sh

KILLCHILLI=0
KILLEND=4

while [ $KILLCHILLI != $KILLEND ]
do
    if [ "`/usr/sbin/wl -i wl0.1 assoclist`" = "" ]; then
        KILLCHILLI=$KILLEND
        /usr/bin/killall chilli && sleep 5 & /usr/sbin/chilli --conf /jffs/chilli.conf
    else
        KILLCHILLI=`expr $KILLCHILLI + 1`
        if [ $KILLCHILLI == $KILLEND ]; then
            break
        else
            sleep 480
        fi
    fi
done