a command for delaying execution of a program for the given length of time. For low power mode, use suspend instead.
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Verbose sleep command that displays pending time seconds/minutes?
sleep command can be used to introduce a delay. e.g. sleep 5 will sleep for 5 seconds.
Is there any alternative/way/method that will display the pending seconds on the terminal?
output like
resuming in 5 sec
the numeric values just countdowns on…
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what's the max number accepted by sleep?
I want to run some jobs after waiting some time:
I can do:
sleep 1000;foo-1;foo-2
What I expected is to wait couple of hours, sleep seems not the best solution.
and I don't want to setup cron job.
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Sleep command to run after exactly every one hour
I need your small help, i have one script which i can not schedule on crontab.
But I am using sleep command.
I am facing issue while using sleep command.
My script took 10 or 15 min to complete ( run time) and I use sleep(3600) which means it sleep…
