Waiting between commands - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

patwa · #1 06-15-2007

Hello,

Taking my scripting one step farther, I want to run a number of commands one after the other, but the system should wait between commands. How do I do this? Do I use the /wait command, or is it a function wait()?

Code:

rsync command
/wait
tar command
/wait
move to a new folder
/wait
tidy up and delete existing files
exit

And I would wrap that all up into a script (see my previous thread on running a command as a script.

So /wait or wait(); ?

And also, does it make a difference what system the script is run on? My webhost uses proper CentOS linux, but when I run the same on my desktop (or the tidy part of the script) it's a cygwin port on Windows XP.

Thanks.

H.

grumpf · #2 06-16-2007

maybe you should try ''man sleep'' or "man usleep"

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