How do I pause for the specific time between two commands in a script?
I want to do something like following:
#!/bin/bash
command1
<pause for 30 seconds>
command2
exit
How can I do it?
Solution 1:
You can use this in a terminal:
command1; sleep 30; command2
In your script:
#!/bin/bash
command1
sleep 30
command2
exit
Suffix for the sleep time:
-
sfor seconds (the default) -
mfor minutes -
hfor hours -
dfor days
Solution 2:
You can use read -t. E.g:
read -p "Continuing in 5 seconds..." -t 5
echo "Continuing..."
In your script:
command1
read -p 'Pausing for 30 seconds' -t 30
command2
Note that you can press Enter to bypass the timeout period.