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Thread: How to have a countdown between commands in a bash script.

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    How to have a countdown between commands in a bash script.

    I want to make a script that'll seem the computer is talking to you, right? But It'll go way to fast as the script'll run it all very fast, is there anyway to have a command that delays between two? Like this....

    Code:
    echo Hello
    [Command to delay a couple of seconds]
    echo blah blah, so on and so forth..

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    Re: How to have a countdown between commands in a bash script.

    sleep n where n is number of seconds
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    Re: How to have a countdown between commands in a bash script.

    Quote Originally Posted by Vaphell View Post
    sleep n where n is number of seconds
    Thanks! Didn't know it was that simple! I will try it when I get to my Ubuntu computer at home and tell you if it works......

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