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BASH: run commands asynchronously at a delay

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Mar 15, 202615185 views
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Effectively what I'm trying to accomplish is the following, where cmd1 takes a while to run (~1 minute) and cmd2 returns almost instantly whenever run: cmd1 starts wait a little while (~10 seconds) cmd2 runs wait a little while again cmd2 runs again some time passes cmd1 finishes It is essential th…

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explanation: launches a process in the background of the shell. the variable contains the pid of that background process. the shell keeps processing the other cmds. means 'wait a little while'. OP just wants to fire in linear order so that part is t…

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