the sleep command:
sleep 4
pauses 4 seconds

On Jan 28, 2008 4:27 PM, Ryan Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am playing around with Google's Android emulator, but it appears
> that the PATH variable is not persistent.  I wanted to write a shell
> script that I could run to start up the emulator, set the path, and
> then give me shell access.  One problem is that there is a short start
> up time for the emulator, so I would need to wait a few seconds before
> running any other commands.  Here is what I have so far:
>
> ./emulator &;
> #NEED TO WAIT A FEW SECONDS HERE
> ./adb shell export PATH=/data/busybox:$PATH;
> ./adb shell
>
> Apparently there is also a problem with the '&' in line 1.  How can I
> start up the emulator in the background, wait a few seconds, and then
> run the other two commands? Thanks.
>
> -ryan
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