sleep 5 &
echo "Sleep is running in background"
wait
echo "Sleep has quit"
The ampersand causes sleep to run in the background, allowing the shell to continue and print the next statement. Then wait prevents the shell from continuing until sleep has finished.
I have a script that runs numerous other scripts. I am using a wait command to try and get the calling script to wait for all process called to finish before proceeding.
Issues
How can I set wait to timeout IE a called program never terminates.
Alternatively how can I check the called... (1 Reply)
Does anyone have an example of a korn shell scripts kicking of multiple background processes and then using the wait command to get the return code from those processes?
I want to write a program that kicks off multiple Oracle procedures and then wait for the return code before I procede.... (1 Reply)
Did not use 'wait' yet.
How I understand by now the wait works only for child processes, started background.
Is there any other way to watch completion of any, not related process (at least, a process, owned by the same user?)
I need to start a background process, witch will be waiting... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a script which runs 3 scripts. The first script creates two files. The other two scripts should run only when the files are created.
I tried the following for loop , but it is not working. Can someone please help me.
while ; do
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Hi all,
I have never used the wait command before and want to know how it works.
I basically need to run four sqlplus sessions in parallel as background processes and i am spooling the results obtained from the database into files.I need to wait for all the processes to finish and then make... (2 Replies)
Net::SSH::Perl ...... how to print the output in a proper format
my $cmd = "ls -l";
my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($host);
$ssh->login($user, $pass);
my($stdout, $stderr, $exit) = $ssh->cmd("$cmd");
print $stdout;
the script works fine, but i am unable to see the output... (2 Replies)
Hi, Is there any way to know the child process status as and when it finished. If i write like below
nohup sh a1.sh & ### has sleep 20 ;echo a1.sh
nohup sh a2.sh & ### has sleep 10 ;echo a2.sh
nohup sh a3.sh & ### has sleep 5 ;echo a3.sh
wait
This will wait till a1.sh ,a2.sh a3.sh... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a question related to Shell scripting. In my shell script, I have following two commands in sequence:
sed 's/^/grep "^120" /g' $ORIGCHARGEDAMTLIST|sed "s;$;| cut -f$FIELD_NO1 -d '|' | awk '{ sum+=\$1} END {printf (\"%0.2f\\\n\", sum/100)}' >$TEMPFILE
mv $TEMPFILE $ORIGFILE... (3 Replies)
What is the proper way to run two commands together?
For example, in the below I would like run a command in bold then pipe that output to awk to re-format it. Thank you :).
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
sleep
SLEEP(3) 1 SLEEP(3)sleep - Delay executionSYNOPSIS
int sleep (int $seconds)
DESCRIPTION
Delays the program execution for the given number of $seconds.
PARAMETERS
o $seconds
- Halt time in seconds.
RETURN VALUES
Returns zero on success, or FALSE on error.
If the call was interrupted by a signal, sleep(3) returns a non-zero value. On Windows, this value will always be 192 (the value of the
WAIT_IO_COMPLETION constant within the Windows API). On other platforms, the return value will be the number of seconds left to sleep.
ERRORS /EXCEPTIONS
If the specified number of $seconds is negative, this function will generate a E_WARNING.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.3.4 | |
| | |
| | Before PHP 5.3.4, on Windows, sleep(3) always |
| | returns NULL when sleep has occurred, regardless |
| | of whether the sleep was interrupted or not. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
sleep(3) example
<?php
// current time
echo date('h:i:s') . "
";
// sleep for 10 seconds
sleep(10);
// wake up !
echo date('h:i:s') . "
";
?>
This example will output (after 10 seconds)
05:31:23
05:31:33
SEE ALSO usleep(3), time_nanosleep(3), time_sleep_until(3), set_time_limit(3).
PHP Documentation Group SLEEP(3)