As a follow-up, I figured it out. So, if anyone is searching for a similar solution, here is my proposed script in its entireity. It is used within OS X. Note that after 5 minutes, I actually exit the script and do not continue:
how to know the information of the waiting process
how to calculate the time of the process that it has taken to execute
i want to make a program that Should be able to keep a log of the processes expired(The log should contain the starting time, expiry time, time slices used, total execution... (2 Replies)
In the below artificially simplified script, I want to wait till after a, b, and c have been printed, before printing "finished."
If you just want to wait on a single background process, you can use $! (pid of the last background process). But this doesn't work if there's more than one... (1 Reply)
hi all
i am opning a browser like www.example.com
i would like to open this browser slowly (wait mode)
how can i do this.
is there any option like wait for some time that to 5sec.,10 sec. like (1 Reply)
Hello Experts!!
My CPU is waiting a lot (around 33%) on I/O. I would like to find out what process(s) are waiting on the i/o. Below is my real time output of vmstat and sar.
Thanks for you help !!!!
Regards
Citrus
OS: AIX - 5L
: /u2/oracle >oslevel
5.3.0.0
: /u2/oracle... (9 Replies)
Hello,
Taking my scripting one step farther, I want to run a number of commands one after the other, but the system should wait between commands. How do I do this? Do I use the /wait command, or is it a function wait()?
rsync command
/wait
tar command
/wait
move to a new folder
/wait... (1 Reply)
I have a text file which contain all the parameters need for scheduled jobs, then this "control" script would be called everynight at certain time
while read line
do
$myScript.sh $line &
pid=$!
i=`expr $i + 1`
done < $list
then I need to wait until all... (1 Reply)
I have a script that runs Compressor and converts the file then I want it to inject the file with Flvtool2. My script works fine but the flvtool2 is starting too early. I have tried to put it in the background by putting a "&" sign at the end and then put a "wait" on a new line. Anyone have any... (2 Replies)
My shell script is not waiting. I right click on a file and say convert it to whatever and it runs this script. It converts it using Compressor but I want it to wait until it is 100% done before moving on and it is not waiting. I have tried to put it in the background and using "wait". I have tried... (10 Replies)
I am such a newbie. I am from a mainframe background, so this stuff is new for me to interpret. I dont know if I need a sleep or wait.
I need a loop to wait for a filea or fileb to be created before I execute further script. The driver unix script is on the solaris. The files I'm looking for... (1 Reply)
Hi All
I have a blade BL860c running on a C7000 chassis, in which is connected to a NetApp, so lately I am having I/O issues, and dmesg as well as syslog.log is reporting the following:
/dev/vg01/lvol2 file system file data error in dev/block 0/55892768
Page I/O error occurred while paging... (2 Replies)