LXer: How to wake up a sleeping bash script
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Suppose you want to have a bash script that sleeps in the background normally, and wakes up to perform some task only when you send a signal to the script. Once the script completes the task, it then goes back to sleep. In this tutorial, let's find out how you can wake up a sleeping bash script by utilizing a named pipe.
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Suppose you want to have a bash script that sleeps in the background normally, and wakes up to perform some task only when you send a signal to the script. Once the script completes the task, it then goes back to sleep. In this tutorial, let's find out how you can wake up a sleeping bash script by utilizing a named pipe.
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