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Title: a bash command to pause?
Post by: Rob on May 27, 2002, 08:46:28 AM

Hi

Anyone know a command that i can use to make a script pause? I want the script to wait till the cdrom is mounted.

TIA
Rob

Title: Re: a bash command to pause?
Post by: Rob Wellesley on May 27, 2002, 08:47:26 AM

doh - forgot to check the

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Title: Re: a bash command to pause?
Post by: Des Dougan on May 27, 2002, 09:48:48 AM

Rob,

"sleep" should do what you want:

sleep
This is the shell equivalent of a wait loop. It pauses for a specified number of seconds, doing nothing. This can be useful for timing or in processes running in the background, checking for a specific event every so often).    
1 sleep 3
2 # Pauses 3 seconds.

From the "Advanced BASH scripting guide"


Des Dougan