[CentOS] Shell Script Help

[Tony Sweeney]

LIMIT=10 # Or whatever
sleep `expr $RANDOM % $LIMIT + 1`

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: 05 September 2013 16:25
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Subject: [CentOS] Shell Script Help

I have a script file in my cron.hourly that contains a good number of scripts I must call.

#!/bin/sh

sleep 15
perl /scripts/create_graph.pl &

sleep 15
perl /scripts/create_graph_out.pl &

many more lines. etc.

Is there a way I can sleep random length to time before executing each but background each one so master script returns promptly.  Something like.

sleep (random 1 - 300 seconds, perl /scripts/create_graph_out.pl) & _______________________________________________
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