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# 15  
Old 03-11-2016
@ RudiC, As I said , I run the parent script using sh -xe option for some other purpose and the sleep is just part of the parent script. So i cannot do what Scrutinizer said.

@Sea : Thanks much. Will try it out.
# 16  
Old 03-11-2016
Then you will have to live with that output, or redirect that too while calling the parent script.
Code:
sh -xe parent.sh 2>output.log

hth
# 17  
Old 03-11-2016
You can temporarily disable shell tracing, for example that way:

Code:
(
    set +x
    while [ ! -f /tmp/checkfile.txt ]
    do
	sleep 3
    done
    echo "File exists now"
)

# 18  
Old 03-11-2016
@jlliagre : That worked perfectly. Thank you so much.
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