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Aug 8, 2018 at 3:27 vote accept Rocky86
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Aug 5, 2018 at 7:54 history edited Kusalananda CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 5, 2018 at 7:15 comment added Kusalananda @ilkkachu Yes, that's a good idea, but here I'm just using inotifywait as a drop-in replacement for sleep.
Aug 5, 2018 at 7:13 history edited Kusalananda CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 5, 2018 at 7:12 comment added ilkkachu With inotify, you could almost replace the whole loop. Just test if the file is there, and if not, inotifywait for a 100 seconds. Almost, since the file could be created just between the test and the inotify, and you'd sleep for the full 100 seconds before timing out...
Aug 5, 2018 at 7:07 history edited Kusalananda CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 5, 2018 at 6:55 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 4.0
The Bourne shell had no $(()), for (( comes from ksh93 it's not bash-specific. typo
Aug 5, 2018 at 6:37 history answered Kusalananda CC BY-SA 4.0