04-13-2014
Hmmmm, TAKE GREAT CARE!!!
You are calling searchstring() inside itself...
Sooner or later it could crash out...
Also not sure where your "sleep 10" sits, certainly not inside the function.
A while : or while true might be a better way using shell _builtins_.
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