bash wait seconds code example

Example 1: wait n seconds in shell script

sleep .5 # Waits 0.5 second.
sleep 5  # Waits 5 seconds.
sleep 5s # Waits 5 seconds.
sleep 5m # Waits 5 minutes.
sleep 5h # Waits 5 hours.
sleep 5d # Waits 5 days.

Example 2: bash pause wait for keypress

read -p "Press any key..."

Example 3: command wait bash

sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]	#Just use this command structure to wait/sleep
#Example:
sleep 5m	#sleeps 5 minutes
sleep 0.1		#sleeps 0.1 seconds or 100 miliseconds
#Suffixes
s - seconds (default)
m - minutes
h - hours
d - days
When no suffix is specified, it defaults to seconds.

Example 4: bash wait 3 seconda

sleep .5 # Waits 0.5 second.
sleep 5  # Waits 5 seconds.
sleep 5s # Waits 5 seconds.
sleep 5m # Waits 5 minutes.
sleep 5h # Waits 5 hours.
sleep 5d # Waits 5 days.

Example 5: pause bash script

function pause(){
 read -s -n 1 -p "Press any key to continue . . ."
 echo ""
}
 
## Pause it ##
pause
 
## rest of script below