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| From: | Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> |
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds |
| Date: | Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:56:18 |
| Message-Id: | 87r7b2jjwx.fsf@newsguy.com |
| 1 | This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of times |
| 2 | in the past. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during |
| 5 | execution. Its something really simple like. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | |
| 8 | smcmd 3 |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Where smcmd is something like set, sit, bla etc. |
| 11 | and the number is number of seconds to wait. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Trying both set and sit here I get an error from sit and no pause from |
| 14 | set. (Using ksh) |
| 15 | |
| 16 | -- |
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| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds | "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××××.net> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds | Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com> |