$ date; sleep .1; date Wed Sep 8 12:18:57 PM EDT 2021 Wed Sep 8 12:18:57 PM EDT 2021 The sleep command is generally used to run a command periodically—once every 10 seconds or once a minute, for ...
Running processes in the background can be convenient when you want to use your terminal window for something else while you wait for the first task to complete. Running commands in the Linux terminal ...