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Sleep less than 1 second
Does anyone know a way to sleep less than 1 second?
Sometimes when I write scripts that iterates a loop many times it would be
nice to slow things down, but sometimes 1 second is too much.
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Does anyone know a way to sleep less than 1 second?
Sometimes when I write scripts that iterates a loop many times it would be
nice to slow things down, but sometimes 1 second is too much.
If your system has "usleep" this allows you to sleep in increments of milliseconds instead of seconds.
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usleep in C code.
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I dont have usleep in my system, which is AIX 5.2.
Is there a compiled version of usleep to download. I think I'm not able
to compile it myself.
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If you have perl try:

perl -e 'select(undef,undef,undef,.1)'

That .1 means .1 seconds.
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Originally Posted by Perderabo
If you have perl try:

perl -e 'select(undef,undef,undef,.1)'

That .1 means .1 seconds.
That works. It is hard to meassure the time but it is definitely less than 1 second.

Thanks a lot.
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IT's not hard to measure the elapsed time:
Put Perderabo's code in a script, call it usleep.sh
Code:
time usleep.sh
will give you something like this:
Code:
kcsdev:/home/jmcnama> time usleep.sh

real    0m0.18s
user    0m0.03s
sys     0m0.05s
real is the elapsed time.
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