Whenever I see a script with a five or ten minute wait in it, I ask myself what it's waiting for. I recently saw a script which started a database, waited 10 minutes (using sleep 600), then started an app server (sleep 600), then started another application (sleep 600, then exit!). That script gets a lot of sleep.   The reason behind the delays was to wait for the previous process to complete. But that could be confirmed in a few ways. Ordinarily, the previous command will have an exit code which you can test for, or you could... [More]

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