Manually Simulate "bad interpreter: Text file busy"

Sometimes I get an error:

chmod +x a.sh
./a.sh

Error

a.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Text file busy

I figured out the solutions was to add a sleep between the two lines:

BUT the problem is I am not able to re-create the issue which makes the text file busy. I basically want to

1. Simulate the "busy file" error 10 times
2. Add fix
3. Ensure the fix works

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