bash -delay-

Collins erichey2
Mon May 17 11:35:11 PDT 2004


On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:20:38 -0700 Ted Ozolins <ted1 at telus.net> wrote:
> Is there a way that I can have a "wait (sec)" using bash?
> 
> for instance if I was to have rc.local start an lcd server but
> wanted the lcdproc client to start about five or ten seconds after
> the initialization of the server can this be done?
> 

Anything wrong with
	do one thing
	sleep 5
	do something else

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Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
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