How to incorporate mutiple commands in Autosys commandline on UNIX

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How to incorporate mutiple commands in Autosys commandline on UNIX

Hi,

I am having a problem running multiple commands in a autosys command line. For example I would like to run a perl script first and then add sleep command after that in the same autosys job like below

insert_job: xxxxxxxxx
command: `perlscript.pl ; sleep 180`

Perlscript.pl is a perl script. To make this question as simple as possible, the perl script just prints a simple line "Hello World" as shown below

#!/usr/bin/perl
printf ("Hello WORLD\n");
exit(0);

When I run the above autosys job, it appears to work and sleeps for 180 seconds / 3 minutes. But after 3 minutes it fails with the error in the error log reading "/bin/sh: line 0: exec: Hello: not found"
Why does this happen. Is there any other way of having mutiple commands in a Autosys commanline ?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

thanks
waavman

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SLEEP(1) BSD General Commands Manual SLEEP(1) NAME
sleep -- suspend execution for an interval of time SYNOPSIS
sleep seconds DESCRIPTION
The sleep command suspends execution for a minimum of seconds. If the sleep command receives a signal, it takes the standard action. IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
The SIGALRM signal is not handled specially by this implementation. The sleep command will accept and honor a non-integer number of specified seconds (with a '.' character as a decimal point). This is a non- portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that a shell script will not execute properly on another system. EXAMPLES
To schedule the execution of a command for x number seconds later (with csh(1)): (sleep 1800; sh command_file >& errors)& This incantation would wait a half hour before running the script command_file. (See the at(1) utility.) To reiteratively run a command (with the csh(1)): while (1) if (! -r zzz.rawdata) then sleep 300 else foreach i (`ls *.rawdata`) sleep 70 awk -f collapse_data $i >> results end break endif end The scenario for a script such as this might be: a program currently running is taking longer than expected to process a series of files, and it would be nice to have another program start processing the files created by the first program as soon as it is finished (when zzz.rawdata is created). The script checks every five minutes for the file zzz.rawdata, when the file is found, then another portion processing is done courteously by sleeping for 70 seconds in between each awk job. DIAGNOSTICS
The sleep utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
nanosleep(2), sleep(3) STANDARDS
The sleep command is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible. HISTORY
A sleep command appeared in Version 4 AT&T UNIX. BSD
April 18, 1994 BSD

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