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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : Freeman, Peter (ERHS) <Freeman.Peter@saugov.sa.gov.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:27:36 +1030

Re: Shell Scripts

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:11:29PM +1030, Freeman, Peter (ERHS) wrote:

 > I'm certain there is such a command, but I cant think of 
 > it off the top of my head.
 > One of the script gurus on the list should know that one,
 > I'm pretty sure its been mentioned on the list b4.
 
"man sleep"

   - mark
 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Richard White [mailto:rwhite@physics.otago.ac.nz]
 > Sent: Wednesday, 28 February 2001 12:21 PM
 > To: Freeman, Peter (ERHS)
 > Cc: LinuxSA
 > Subject: Re: Shell Scripts
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks Peter,
 > 
 > Those URLs look like they'll be very useful, and nicer than the bash
 > manual pages!
 > 
 > Actually, I have a particular script query.  Is there a command that
 > causes the script to pause for a specified time period?  I guess a loop
 > could achieve this, but at the expense of high CPU usage.
 > 
 > Richard
 > 
 > Richard White
 > 
 > Photon Engineering Pty. Ltd.
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 > PO Box 10269 Gouger Street
 > Adelaide, SA 5000
 > Australia
 > Tel: +61 8 8410 4599
 > Fax: +61 8 8410 4544
 > http://www.photonengineering.com.au
 > 
 > 
 > "Freeman, Peter (ERHS)" wrote:
 > > 
 > > I'm no shell-script expert by any stretch,
 > > but for shell-script nightmares, try "man bash", j/k
 > > it is quite useful, like all man pages, just dont try 2
 > > print it unless there's a couple spare forests handy to
 > > keep paper up to the printer!
 > > 
 > > or try:
 > > 
 > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
 > > 
 > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html
 > 
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