[Linux-disciples] Waiting

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> What's the easiest way, in a shell or Perl script, to pause
> for some length of time, in the meantime using no system
> resources? Is there some sort of wait() function? All I can
> find is waitpid() and its ilk, which isn't what I want.

sleep (?)

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