Shell Programming and Scripting

Oh thanks a lot,
this will definitely help me,
i will surely get back to you regarding the output...

Thanks again

hi ,
can you just explain the script..
because ,we know that the shell automatically inserts a wait call, if the preceeding process isnt complete..
in which case, that cp /home/wrap /home/xyz will have to first be completed before entering the copy(),
isnt it??

Why do you need to further check?(to introduce a delay)
do you have any other idea?

Shouldn't we be asking you these kinds of questions?

Either you want the copy to run in the background (you'll need a trivial mod to yogi's example) or you don't, in which case you are already waiting until it finishes. Is neither of these what you want? Then could you explain some more?

You have mixed everything up...the first advise you were given is to use sleep command but as per your response that this depends on file size and CPU speed,...etc.....then a script was provided and again you said this will not work....for both cases, i have one question for you, now you want to copy the file then execute the next command, now by logic the next command won't be executed unless the copy is finished, so where are you lost exactly because it doesn't seem for me that you have a problem, the script will automatically not execute the next exe unless the copy is finished...so where is the PROBLEM??