Verify that dropbox is current and up to date

I ran into problems where multiple machines I own did not have their dropbox content synchronized.  Simply performing "dropbox stat" was insufficient.  If one of the machines had been offline for awhile, it would take minutes to synchronize the data and download any missing files.

This started (on LInux mint) as: "while true; do dropbox stat;sleep 15; done"

It has evolved into a pair of scripts.  The first verifies that my network (WAN) access is alive and well and then initializes the state of dropbox for my machine.  These scripts also include a number of supporting general purpose scripts.

Here is sample output in verbose mode:

dropstat  -s 1 -t 1 -c 8 -v
logdir=$HOME/Dropbox/.dropboxdir/logs/start-stats
currentmonth=2025-10
nowdir=$HOME/Dropbox/.dropboxdir/logs/start-stats/2025-10
dropstat: Starting dropbox and auto-installing the
dropstat: dropboxd if not available and running on the
dropstat: current system
    dropbox start -i
dropstat: starting again to make sure it starts
    dropbox start
dropstat: putting dropbox into lansync mode to speed it up
    dropbox lansync y
dropstat: setting dropbox to autostart after each boot
    dropbox autostart y
dropstat: starting network status check
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  lenovo.com    AVG:332.902      MAX:391.487
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  ibm.com    AVG:53.856      MAX:55.774
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  google.com    AVG:38.737      MAX:40.055
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  gutenberg.org    AVG:294.259      MAX:344.225
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  cisco.com    AVG:264.000      MAX:318.673
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  dell.com    AVG:275.083      MAX:313.784
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  time.com    AVG:12.239      MAX:13.740
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  asus.com    AVG:174.022      MAX:228.123
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  dropbox.com    AVG:39.943      MAX:41.630
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  ddn.com    AVG:43.304      MAX:43.987
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  amazon.com    AVG:252.489      MAX:316.353
 netup(main):247: [PASS]  yahoo.com    AVG:269.798      MAX:316.586
finished 1 of 1
[PASS] lenovo.com
[PASS] ibm.com
[PASS] google.com
[PASS] gutenberg.org
[PASS] cisco.com
[PASS] dell.com
[PASS] time.com
[PASS] asus.com
[PASS] dropbox.com
[PASS] ddn.com
[PASS] amazon.com
[PASS] yahoo.com
goodsuccess=1200
totsuccess=1200
[PASS] Got a score of 100
[PASS] completed network check with a score of  100
2025-10_15:03:45:renidea:10.0.4.15  00:01:29
Dropstat: Dropbox is Up to date
Dropstat took 89 seconds

Here is the -h output

dropstat -h
 dropstat(main):107: dropstat [-[hv]] [-[dsp] <#>]
        Monitor how long dropbox takes to begin processing
    -c    <#>    set the ping count per site to #
    -d    <#>    Set the diagnostic levels
            Use -vh to see debug modes
    -h        Print this help message
    -l    <site1 site2 ...> enclosed in double quotes to provide a
            list of sites to ping to verify that the network is alive.
            This is used to insure that we should be able to reach dropbox
    -s    <#>    Set the sleep between pings for testing network up
    -t    <#>    The number of test loops to delay starting
    -v        turn on verbose mode for this script
            Use -vh to see diagnostic levels

If there is general interest, I will post the Bash source files and supporting scripts