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Avoiding busy waiting in bash, without the sleep command
I know I can wait on a condition to become true in bash by doing:
while true; do
test_condition && break
sleep 1
done
But it creates 1 sub-process at each iteration (sleep). I could ...
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Alternative for `sleep seconds` that takes system load into account?
So I develop my server app and some client apps for it. After each rebuild I start my server (which tends to load qup all services for something like 2 seconds) and then I start my clients... So his ...
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Script to SCP files works manually but not through cron
I'm using CentOS 5.6. The below code might have some typos as I needed to change real info to fake info for security reasons:
backup.sh
#!/bin/bash
set -vx
rm -v /server/temp_db.gz
rm -v ...
