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Shell script to delay launch of application

March 10, 2006

The following shell script can be used (Mac OSX) to delay the launch of an application at start up for 10 seconds. Useful for delaying the launch of a Max-based standalone application in an installaton.

Create script and put in startup items:

#!/bin/sh
sleep 10
open “/Path/to/your/standalone.app” 

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