CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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jandost
jandost

Reputation: 17

Sleep within a script not affecting the terminal

I need a command within a shell script to wait for a while, is there a way how to use sleep so that it would run only within the script and I wouldn't have to wait until it is done?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 569

Answers (2)

hek2mgl
hek2mgl

Reputation: 158010

Run it in background using the &:

sleep 10 &

If want it to do something useful you can launch multiple commands in a sub shell:

(echo start; sleep 10 ; echo end) &

Or even write a shell script:

script.sh:

#!/bin/bash
echo "start"
sleep 10
echo "end"

and launch that in the background:

chmod +x script.sh
./script.sh &

Further reading:

Upvotes: 0

Douglas Leeder
Douglas Leeder

Reputation: 53310

You can run the entire script in the background with &:

$ ./<scriptname> &

Which sounds like what you want to do.

Upvotes: 1

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