Re: [expert] shell scripting

[Travis Olds]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Franki wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I need a way of causing a 5 second delay in a shell script before the next
> command is run, I can do this in perl, shell not so sure though...
> 
> can anyone offer assistance on that?
 
sleep <time> where time is num of secs to sleep.
 
> rgds
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 


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