[ANN] msleep, usleep in bash

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AJ ONeal

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Jan 26, 2011, 1:22:49 PM1/26/11

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I don't know about y'all, but I often find cases where I wish I had msleep in bash.

https://github.com/coolaj86/msleep-commandline

Now I do. Just thought I'd share.

AJ ONeal

Dave Smith

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Jan 26, 2011, 9:39:18 PM1/26/11

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I think the reason usleep doesn't exist on the command line is because you could never get microsecond resolution due to the fact that you are invoking a new process. It would have to be a shell built-in to have any degree of accuracy I suspect.