Stop a Mac from sleeping while a bash script is running, then allow it to sleep as normal once complete

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Mar 15, 202616787 views

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I've got my Mac to wake up during the night and run an rsync to back it up. This is configured through Energy Saver > Schedule. However it seems that it's going back to sleep before it can get anything done, so I need to stop it sleeping during the execution of the bash script that rsync runs from.…

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Stop a Mac from sleeping while a bash script is running, then allow it to sleep as normal once complete

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