wait until docker start in Mac OS through shell script?

Question

I am writing a shell script in which I am installing docker on Mac through terminal. I am able to install through brew cask install docker. Now it is GUI based docker which wait for user event to continue. Now in my shell script I want hold the execution until docker is started and running. I have found a nice script which checks if docker is running or not. I am able to check it though as below.

#!/bin/bash

rep=$(curl -s --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://ping > /dev/null)
status=$?

if [ "$status" == "7" ]; then
    echo 'not connected'
    exit 1
fi

echo 'connected'
exit 0

I have tried to it put in a loop so that until status is 0 it should check again and again and hold the exception. I have no experience in shell scripting but tried a way to run but failed to do . how can I achieve this.

My script

#!/bin/bash

status=0

test() {
rep=$(curl -s --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://ping > /dev/null)
status=$?
}

checkDocker() {
while [ "$status" == "7" ]
do
    echo waiting docker to start
    test
done
}

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 29 '20 at 16:43

8

Here's what I use. It's a modification of jeffbymes' answer. Instead printing the error messages and waiting for 10 seconds between retries, this just prints a nice message with an ellipsis that grows one dot every second until Docker is ready.

#!/bin/bash

printf "Starting Docker for Mac";

open -a Docker;

while [[ -z "$(! docker stats --no-stream 2> /dev/null)" ]];
  do printf ".";
  sleep 1
done

echo "";

answered Apr 29 '20 at 16:43

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Ooh! Nice improvement – jeffbyrnes Jun 17 '21 at 15:19
This doesn't seem to work anymore with the latest docker update – Richard Hpa Jul 10 '23 at 20:58
This worked just fine for me on an M1 Mac. – Nick Jul 16 '23 at 06:04
Mine gets stuck at the `printf "Starting Docker for Mac";` until I manually open docker – Richard Hpa Jul 20 '23 at 01:09
Found my issue. Turns out this doesnt work 100% of the time if you have resource saver mode on which is a new experimental feature. – Richard Hpa Aug 14 '23 at 01:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '19 at 19:00

Lifted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/48843074/133479, here’s the script I came up with while trying to get yours to work. Checking the exit of the curl is tricky, because while Docker is starting up, it will respond with an error, but since the response occurs, curl considers it OK and $status is set to a value other than 7.

#!/bin/bash

while (! docker stats --no-stream ); do
  # Docker takes a few seconds to initialize
  echo "Waiting for Docker to launch..."
  sleep 10
done

docker start $container

One thing to consider, however, is that this eventually has output, so you may wish to handle that.

wait until docker start in Mac OS through shell script?

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