[colug-432] Pausing

[Rick Hornsby]

Steve VanSlyck wrote:
> I'd tried sleep 3s after trying sleep 3, which didn't work.

Need more context. Sleep is the correct command for pausing.


./sleep_test.sh
Fri May 15 19:41:57 CDT 2015
Fri May 15 19:42:00 CDT 2015
aztec:bin rhornsby$ cat sleep_test.sh
#!/bin/bash
date
sleep 3
date

> Unfortunately your corrected ping local host doesn't work eether. 
> Want's me to press <enter>.
> On Fri, May 15, 2015, at 20:32, Mike Plemmons wrote:
>>
>> Try
>> sleep 3
>> ping localhost  -c 2 -I 3 > /dev/null
>>
>> On May 15, 2015 8:24 PM, "Steve VanSlyck" <s.vanslyck at postpro.net 
>> <mailto:s.vanslyck at postpro.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     I tried both of these in my script and neether one would continue.
>>     Both worked fine at the command line.
>>     Hints?
>>     sleep 3s
>>     ping localhost -c 2 -i 3 > nul
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