bash -delay-

Ted Ozolins ted1
Mon May 17 11:35:11 PDT 2004


On Saturday 20 July 2002 10:40, Collins wrote:
> 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

Thanks.
-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.




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