This is an old question I had. The main problem was the sleep command only works in one second intervals. At the time, nobody could give me an easy answer.
To my surprise (not really) there is a command which does just what I want: usleep -m 200 This sleeps for 200 milliseconds. I stumbled across this at the StepsbySteps. I have this sneaky suspicion that there is a lot more to linux than I know. Joel On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:56:35PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: > I want to have a background job watching a directory for new files > arriving, and then responding when they arrive. > The response time has to be very quick (impatient humans), maybe on the order > of a 1/2 second or less. > I could have a bash script watching the directory, but the sleep command > works in intervals of 1 second. Not fast enuf. > Any ideas appreciated, > Joel _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
