From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 8:26:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from irrelevant.demon.co.uk (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3AA37B410 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15kRvr-0001FH-00; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:09:35 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:09:35 +0100 From: Simon Dick To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Is There A "Wait" Command for Scripts? Message-ID: <20010921160935.B4413@irrelevant.org> References: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0BE@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0BE@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>; from drewt@writeme.com on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:59:26AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:59:26AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm looking for a command to include in a csh script that will make the > script "wait" for 20 seconds or so before continuing on with the script. I > have been unsuccessful in finding what I need in man. Thanks! Try sleep(1) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message