How do I pause my shell script for a second before continuing

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I have only found how to wait for user input  However  I only want to pause so that my while true doesn t crash my computer    I tried pause 1   but it says -bash  syntax error near unexpected token  1   How can it be done

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You can make it wait using  RANDOM  a default random number generator  In the below I am using 240 seconds  Hope that helps     gt  WAIT FOR SECONDS   usr bin expr  RANDOM   240   bin sleep  gt   WAIT FOR SECONDS

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In Python  question was originally tagged Python  you need to import the time module  import time time sleep 1    or  from time import sleep sleep 1    For shell script is is just  sleep 1   Which executes the sleep command  eg   bin sleep

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use trap to pause and check command line  in color using tput  before running it trap  tput setaf 1 tput bold echo  BASH COMMAND read tput init  DEBUG  press any key to continue  use with set -x to debug command line

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On Mac OSX  sleep does not take minutes etc  only seconds  So for two minutes   sleep 120

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I realize that I m a bit late with this  but you can also call sleep and pass the disired time in  For example  If I wanted to wait for 3 seconds I can do     bin sleep 3   4 seconds would look like this    bin sleep 4

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Use the sleep command   Example   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    One can also employ decimals when specifying a time unit  e g  sleep 1 5s

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read -r -p  quot Wait 5 seconds or press any key to continue immediately quot  -t 5 -n 1 -s To continue when you press any one button for more info check read manpage ref 1  ref 2

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Within the script you can add the following in between the actions you would like the pause  This will pause the routine for 5 seconds   read -p  Pause Time 5 seconds  -t 5 read -p  Continuing in 5 Seconds      -t 5 echo  Continuing

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Run multiple sleeps and commands  sleep 5  amp  amp  cd  var www html  amp  amp  git pull  amp  amp  sleep 3  amp  amp  cd      This will wait for 5 seconds before executing the first script  then will sleep again for 3 seconds before it changes directory again

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And what about   read -p  Press enter to continue

[bash] How do I pause my shell script for a second before continuing?

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