unfortunately sleep isn't installed on the empeg. I was thinking of a loop which runs till the command succeeds : 

send_msg() {

while [ "$END" != "0" ]

do

        echo empeg on | ./nc -w 5 192.168.1.1 5555

        END=$?

done

}



send_msg&

init.empeg

or 

export TARGET_IP=129.168.1.1

export TARGET_PORT=55555

(ping -w 20 $TARGET_IP >/dev/null 2>&1; echo empeg on | ./nc -w 5 $TARGET_IP $TARGET_PORT)&

init.empeg

this waits for 20 seconds for ping before starting nc


Frank van Gestel
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Frank van Gestel