sleep is fine, pause waits on a signal. See man sleep & man pause
respectively.
Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000, Lam, Yochai wrote about "how long since you've heard one like
>this.......?":
> > here's a question you didn't hear the last 8 years.
> > "what command do you use in a batch file to delay the running of commands 10
> > seconds, without outside intervention"?
> > i want to delay the system to allow the startup of a slow starting service
>
> How about,
>
> sleep 10
>
> ;)
> You've asked for it, posting this question in a Linux mailing list!
> Actually, this answer is correct if you install the 'sleep' command from
> Cygnus's DOS port of GNU utilities.
> And for a more serious reply - try "pause 10". If I remember correctly. But
> maybe I'm wrong and I don't have anywhere to check this on...
>
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