[gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

[gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

[Harry Putnam]

This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of times
in the past.

I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during
execution.  Its something really simple like.


smcmd 3

Where smcmd is something like set, sit, bla etc.
and the number is number of seconds to wait.

Trying both set and sit here I get an error from sit and no pause from
set. (Using ksh)

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

[Brett I. Holcomb]

man sleep?

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Harry Putnam wrote:

> This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of times
> in the past.
>
> I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during
> execution.  Its something really simple like.
>
>
> smcmd 3
>
> Where smcmd is something like set, sit, bla etc.
> and the number is number of seconds to wait.
>
> Trying both set and sit here I get an error from sit and no pause from
> set. (Using ksh)
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

[Michael Crute]

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On 10/3/05, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of times
> in the past.
>
> I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during
> execution. Its something really simple like.
>
>
> smcmd 3
>
> Where smcmd is something like set, sit, bla etc.
> and the number is number of seconds to wait.
>
> Trying both set and sit here I get an error from sit and no pause from
> set. (Using ksh)
>
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
Pause, wait?
 -Mike

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

[Harry Putnam]

"Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net> writes:

> man sleep?
>

Haa.. yup that was the critter... Thanks

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds

[Mariusz Pękala]

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> Pause, wait?

for x in {1..1000000}; do :; done

just joking :-)

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