Re: Sleeping in a shell
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:59:35PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Low!
> Does anybody of you guys know a way to sleep for an amount of time less than
> a second in a shell (bash/sh) script?
>
> sleep refuses arguments like: 0.5 0,5 1/2
>
> Maybe there is a nice perl command to do this?
>
> I really don't feel like writing a my_sleep.c ...
The usleep shell command does what you want (though as has been pointed
out, you may be better off translating to perl.
Jon Leonard
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