nohup output on screen for some time

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,
I'm executing a binary with nohup in a menu(shellscript) and output is going to nohup.out fine.
I need few lines of nohup.out should be displayed on screen so that I will come to know the process is successfully started and continue with other options in my menu.

Thanks in advance.

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Include the below command in the middle of the script, where PATTERN. would the pattern of the lines that need to be displayed.

sed -n '/PATTERN1/,/PATTERN2/p' nohup.out
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thanks michaelrozar17

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Assuming you are backgrounding the binary with "nohup program &", you will need a short sleep to give the background process a chance to write some output to nohup.out.
If you are not backgrounding the binary your script will wait until the binary finishes before executing the next line.