On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:59:35PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Low! > Does anybody of you guys know a way to sleep for an amount of time less than > a second in a shell (bash/sh) script? > > sleep refuses arguments like: 0.5 0,5 1/2 > > Maybe there is a nice perl command to do this? > > I really don't feel like writing a my_sleep.c ...
The usleep shell command does what you want (though as has been pointed out, you may be better off translating to perl. Jon Leonard
