One Day One GNU/Linux Command ============================= sleep/usleep -- Sleep for a specified amount of time
Summary : Sleep will introduce a delay for a specified seconds (Seconds may be an arbitrary floating point number). usleep sleeps some no of micro- seconds (default is 1). Examples : $ sleep 6 -- Sleep for 6 Seconds. $ sleep 6s -- Sleep for 6 Seconds (Default). $ sleep 6m -- Sleep for 6 Minutes. $ sleep 6h -- Sleep for 6 Hours. $ sleep 6d -- Sleep for 6 Days. $ sleep 10.5 -- sleep for 10.5 Seconds. $ usleep 200 -- Sleep for 200 mSec. Sleep may NOT give a very accurate result on many machines. Read : man sleep , usleep HTH :) -- Bharathi S _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
