If I want a script to sleep for less than a second, would I use a decimal? In other words, if I wanted my script to sleep for 1/4 of a second, would I say, SLEEP .25 ??
I don't think you can use the sleep command for less than 1 second, from the man pages:
The sleep command suspends execution of a process for at least the interval specified by the Seconds parameter. The amount of time specified in the Seconds parameter can range from 1 to MAXINT (2,147,483,647) seconds.
GNU sleep 2.0a and up support floating-point numbers (i.e. sleep 0.25).
If your script is in Perl, you can use select() to time out in fractions of seconds:
select(undef,undef,undef,0.25); # sleep 1/4 second
u can use the command "usleep".
u will have to specify the number in microseconds.
for e.g., if u have to sleep for 0.25 seconds.
then specify,
usleep 250000
aaditya
There is a command
delay_output which pauses the production of output for a specified number of milli seconds.
Is this what u want????
-Nisha