On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:09:05PM +0200, Timeboy wrote: | | Hi! | | I like to write a litte shell script that first makes a connection to my ISP | and then runs fetchmail. This is no problem for me. But cause it takes some | seconds till the connection to ISP is done, the script needs to wait for 5 or | 10 seconds bevore it runs fetchmail. How can i do this waiting with a bash | command? See the sleep(1) manpage. -D