[colug-432] Pausing

[Steve VanSlyck]

Hi Rick.

Here are the lines from the script:

# Install the dialog utility
read -p "Invisible Island's dialog utility will be installed. See
http://invisible-island.net/dialog ." sleep 2s # or ping localhost -c 2
-i 2 > null yum -y install dialog


I tried sleep 2, sleep 2s (which == sleep 2) and ping localhost -c 2
-i 2 > null

(I cannot send to /dev/null because that requires sudo and that's a pain
for testing.)

For each one, execution stops until I press <enter>



On Fri, May 15, 2015, at 20:44, Rick Hornsby wrote:
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Steve VanSlyck wrote:
>> I'd tried sleep 3s after trying sleep 3, which didn't work.
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Need more context. Sleep is the correct command for pausing.
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./sleep_test.sh
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Fri May 15 19:41:57 CDT 2015
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Fri May 15 19:42:00 CDT 2015
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aztec:bin rhornsby$ cat sleep_test.sh
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#!/bin/bash
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date
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sleep 3
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date
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>> Unfortunately your corrected ping local host doesn't work eether.
 Want's me to press <enter>.
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>> On Fri, May 15, 2015, at 20:32, Mike Plemmons wrote:
>>> Try
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sleep 3
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ping localhost -c 2 -I 3 > /dev/null

>>> On May 15, 2015
8:24 PM, "Steve VanSlyck" <s.vanslyck at postpro.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I tried both of these in my script and neether one would
continue.
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>>>> Both worked fine at the command line.
>>>>
>>>> Hints?
>>>>
>>>> sleep 3s
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>>>> ping localhost -c 2 -i 3 > nul
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