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Reading output from terminal back into bash script

How can I get a bash script to wait and read and count $i messages that a running program (drbl clonezilla) sends to the console (terminal) and only then move on to the next line in the script when the count is matched (the next line is the last line of the script and is a reboot)?

The script kicks off a program that takes about 10 minutes (but could take longer) and then multiple success messages are echoed back to the terminal within about 15 seconds of each other. This also means that I actually only need to grab the first message and then sleep for 30 seconds and reboot but I would like to learn by seeing how it would recognise only the word 'success' in each line of echoed message, count them and then move on.
At the moment I have a read -p, pause, in there and a I hit Enter for the sudo reboot line to run after the messages have echoed back.
I thought it might be a 'while read' loop or an 'if' statement or even a combination but can't fully understand how to get either to wait and read the messages echoed back to the terminal. Is it stdin?
The bash cookbook aint helpin me this time.
Thanks.
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