Bash Wait Seconds Code Example

Example 1: wait n seconds in shell script

sleep .5 # Waits 0.5 second. sleep 5  # Waits 5 seconds. sleep 5s # Waits 5 seconds. sleep 5m # Waits 5 minutes. sleep 5h # Waits 5 hours. sleep 5d # Waits 5 days.

Example 2: bash pause wait for keypress

read -p "Press any key..."

Example 3: command wait bash

sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]	#Just use this command structure to wait/sleep #Example: sleep 5m	#sleeps 5 minutes sleep 0.1		#sleeps 0.1 seconds or 100 miliseconds #Suffixes s - seconds (default) m - minutes h - hours d - days When no suffix is specified, it defaults to seconds.

Example 4: bash wait 3 seconda

sleep .5 # Waits 0.5 second. sleep 5  # Waits 5 seconds. sleep 5s # Waits 5 seconds. sleep 5m # Waits 5 minutes. sleep 5h # Waits 5 hours. sleep 5d # Waits 5 days.

Example 5: pause bash script

function pause(){  read -s -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue . . ."  echo "" }   ## Pause it ## pause   ## rest of script below