Here is a quickie shell script (bash) tip. If you ever want to insert a random sleep/pause into a running script:
sleep $[ ( $RANDOM % 10 ) + 1 ]s
This will introduce a 1-10 second random sleep/pause in the script. Can be handy at times.
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