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xaos52

The Good Doctor

From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 4,602

Deferring the execution of a command.

More than once, I have found myself running a program that calls a given script multiple times, and sometimes, way too many times. In some cases, for instance, it was only necessary to run the script once in one minute, instead of hundreds of times.
Sounds like I want something like dpkg's deferred triggers, right? pretty much so.

From Raphael Geissert's blog.

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fatmac

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2012-11-14

Posts: 1,948

Re: Deferring the execution of a command.

That link is showing the use of 'sleep' to hold back the running of the script/program for the number of seconds given, this can be done in any 'sh' script, as far as I know.

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xaos52

The Good Doctor

From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 4,602

Re: Deferring the execution of a command.

It does more than that.
Any new, identical commands launched within the 'wait' time are not executed, they just increment the wait time for the original command to be executed.

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