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Asked: 2026-05-24T13:22:20+00:00

I want to unzip a zipped folder on my Redhat machine. To do this

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I want to unzip a zipped folder on my Redhat machine.

To do this I send a bash script the string;

"unzip /usr/bin/Folder.gz"

This unzips the folder no problem, as in I get the general

inflating folderA/folderB/fileX

etc.

However, I want to hold the code at the unzip command, waiting until the unzipping is complete.

I have tried using

sleep(5)

but I don’t want to use this and just hope that it will always take less than five seconds especially this is would be inefficient for very small zipped files.

I have searched online but to no avail…

So my question is; what is a reliable way to stall a program until the unzipping is complete?

O/S: Redhat

Programming Language: C++

IDE: Eclipse

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  1. Editorial Team

    How do you run the bash script?

    If you use the system() API it will start the program and then wait until the spawned process ends.

    system() system is a call that is made up of 3 other system calls: execl(), wait() and fork(). Source.

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