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I am running a script with an IF statement but I need it to wait 45seconds before it starts. But with the sleep there it works but skips my if statement for some reason and shuts down even though firefox is open. Any thoughts?

Code:

#!/bin/sh --

sleep 45s

if [ ` pidof firefox-bin` ]; then

sleep 15s

fi

sudo /sbin/shutdown - h now

exit 0

This may be related to a previous post that I had:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rsions-631968/

I don't understand the purpose of this script. I think you want something which does this, right?

wait for 45 seconds
if firefox is running, sleep another 15 seconds
no matter if firefox was running or not, shutdown the computer

Weird script!
I think what you want to do is change the id statement like this:

Code:

if pidof firefox-bin; then

And if you don't want to see the PID printed on the terminal, you can re-direct stdout like this (and then we will just use the exit status of pidof:

Code:

if pidof firefox-bin > /dev/null; then

Note that sudo will probably prompt you for a password. I assume you've set up the sudoers file to make it possible to run shutdown without being prompted for the password.

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