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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I've a small script where it checks for the existence of a particular file and sleeps for 5 seconds if it doesn't exist. I would like to send the sleep output to background so that I don't see so many sleep messages in the build output.
#!/bin/sh -x
until
do
sleep 3
done
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script that runs a process at the beginning and I want to sleep/wait until this process is finished and then continue with the rest of the script. I am trying with this, but it is not working:
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if ; do
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is a very crude attempt in Bash at something that I needed but didn't seem to find in the 'sleep' command. However, I would like to be able to do it without the need for the temp file. Please go easy on me if this is already possible in some other way:
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
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