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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to ring the system bell many times without pause? Post 302716713 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 16th of October 2012 08:22:06 PM
Old 10-16-2012
Under cygwin both pdksh and bash support decimal sleep durations, try
Code:
sleep 0.25

or

Code:
sleep 0.5

 

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SLEEP(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  SLEEP(3)

NAME
sleep - Sleep for the specified number of seconds SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> unsigned int sleep(unsigned int seconds); DESCRIPTION
sleep() makes the calling thread sleep until seconds seconds have elapsed or a signal arrives which is not ignored. RETURN VALUE
Zero if the requested time has elapsed, or the number of seconds left to sleep, if the call was interrupted by a signal handler. CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001. BUGS
sleep() may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm(2) and sleep() is a bad idea. Using longjmp(3) from a signal handler or modifying the handling of SIGALRM while sleeping will cause undefined results. SEE ALSO
alarm(2), nanosleep(2), signal(2), signal(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
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