CLI Magic: Wait or Sleep?

Posted by dave on Mar 27, 2005 9:30 PM
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Usually, you want a shell script to just run to completion, one command after another. There are times, however, when a sequence of events includes a step upon which subsequent steps depend for successful execution. For these times, two useful commands are wait and sleep, both of which cause a delay in the script execution.

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