Bash: Sudo keep-alive (good for long-running scripts that need sudo internally but shouldn't be run with sudo)

sudo-keepalive-example.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Might as well ask for password up-front, right?
sudo -v

# Keep-alive: update existing sudo time stamp if set, otherwise do nothing.
while true; do sudo -n true; sleep 60; kill -0 "$$" || exit; done 2>/dev/null &

# Example: do stuff over the next 30+ mins that requires sudo here or there.
function wait() {
  echo -n "["; for i in {1..60}; do sleep $1; echo -n =; done; echo "]"
}
wait 0 # show reference bar
echo "$(sudo whoami) | $(date)"
wait 1
echo "$(sudo whoami) | $(date)"
wait 2
echo "$(sudo whoami) | $(date)"
wait 5
echo "$(sudo whoami) | $(date)"
wait 10
echo "$(sudo whoami) | $(date)"
wait 15
echo "$(sudo whoami) | $(date)"
wait 1
sudo -K
echo "$(whoami) | $(date)"
wait 2
echo "$(whoami) | $(date)"
wait 5
echo "done."

@cowboy are you saying that this attempt at a solution didn't work? https://gist.github.com/cowboy/6733297

Has anyone tried this solution with the following sequence of commands:

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y autoremove

local packages=(tree curl unzip htop gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2
            gconf2-common libappindicator1 libgconf-2-4 libindicator7
            libpython2-stdlib python python2.7 python2.7-minimal libatomic1
            gimp vlc)

sudo apt-get -y install ${packages[@]}

sudo apt-get -y update

# At this point it asks me again the password
sudo apt-get -y install gufw

For me it didn't work.

Does sudo count the times is called along with the timeout? Because I see I'm using a few redundant apt-get update.

FYI: I'm running ubuntu 20.04