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noah on 10/28/10


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bash: how to start a service and wait until it's up

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Sometimes you need to start a service that takes a while to spin up.

Solr and Selenium-RC Server, for instance, can be unavailable for several seconds after the command to start them is issued.

Using Netcat, it's easy to poll-and-wait until a newly-started service begins listening on its proper port.

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  1. selenium-rc &
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  3. while ! nc -vz localhost 4444; do sleep 1; done
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  5. echo 'Selenium-RC server is open for business on port 4444!'

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