Hi, not SuSE related, but ... :) how can I make a bash script to wait 10 seconds? I read about wait command, but it looks like the only argument it takes is the job ID. Cheers Sunny
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:14, Sunny wrote:
Hi, not SuSE related, but ... :)
how can I make a bash script to wait 10 seconds? I read about wait command, but it looks like the only argument it takes is the job ID.
Cheers Sunny
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Sunny, On Monday 16 May 2005 09:14, Sunny wrote:
Hi, not SuSE related, but ... :)
how can I make a bash script to wait 10 seconds? I read about wait command, but it looks like the only argument it takes is the job ID.
Brad already told you how to solve your immediate problem, but I wanted to add that "wait" is for synchronizing the shell (whether it's executing a script or operating interactively) with background jobs. By default, the wait command waits for all background jobs to complete. Also, the argument may be a job number or a process ID, but that process must be one spawned directly by the shell (as reported when the '&' operator is used to detach a job). Note, too, that by necessity "wait" is a shell built-in, so you can get terse help with "help wait" and full documentation via man.
Cheers Sunny
Randall Schulz
On 5/16/05, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
Sunny,
On Monday 16 May 2005 09:14, Sunny wrote:
Hi, not SuSE related, but ... :)
how can I make a bash script to wait 10 seconds? I read about wait command, but it looks like the only argument it takes is the job ID.
Brad already told you how to solve your immediate problem, but I wanted to add that "wait" is for synchronizing the shell (whether it's executing a script or operating interactively) with background jobs. By default, the wait command waits for all background jobs to complete. Also, the argument may be a job number or a process ID, but that process must be one spawned directly by the shell (as reported when the '&' operator is used to detach a job). Note, too, that by necessity "wait" is a shell built-in, so you can get terse help with "help wait" and full documentation via man.
Cheers Sunny
Randall Schulz
Yes, Brad hit the point. But thanks for the clarification. I was a little bit confused reading about wait in Advanced Bash scripting. It was not very clear about that all these processes should be spawned by the shell, and I was almost put in a wrong direction. I needed to wait until one daemon dies, and it looks like wait was not the solution :) Cheers Sunny
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