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how can i wait for 5 seconds inside my shell script? 'wait 5' command doesnot seem to be working?
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What exactly is the scenario. You can use sleep 10 to sleep for 10 seconds.
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use sleep command instead of wait.and the wait time you can put accordingly.

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