BASH: run commands asynchronously at a delay
Solution 1:
cmd1 &
cmd1_pid=$!
sleep 10
cmd2
sleep 10
cmd2
wait $cmd1_pid
explanation: cmd1 & launches a process in the background of the shell. the $! variable contains the pid of that background process. the shell keeps processing the other cmds. sleep 10 means 'wait a little while'. OP just wants to fire cmd2 in linear order so that part is trivial. at the end of the script snippet we just wait for cmd1 to finish (it might be even finished earlier) with wait $cmd1_pid.