$ 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 ...
If you don't want to stop everything you're doing to wait for some other Linux workload to complete, custom scripts and the bash 'wait' built-in can set you free. There are always things to wait for ...