On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:33:49PM +0800, -JhAzEr- wrote:
> For example i have two commands to execute in a script, i want the
> second command to execute after 30sec upon running the first command.
> Is this possible?
You probably want the sleep command, as in:
$ sleep 30
to sleep for 30 seconds, or
$ sleep 1.5m
$ sleep 0.49d
or something like that. Unfortunately
$ sleep 1d2h3m
doesn't work. However you can always convert to:
$ sleep 93780
$ sleep 1563m
$ sleep 26.05h
$ sleep 1.0854167d
For more information check out the sleep(1) manual page:
$ man sleep
Those wanting to check to see how accurate sleep is may use time:
$ time sleep 5
real 0m5.012s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.010s
But then that's quite contrived, eh? Okay okay, I'll go back and study
(I have an exam on Saturday, and I wager the stress is showing). ;)
--> Jijo
PS- this is a newbie question, I'm cc'ing that list.
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