How do I pause my shell script for a second before continuing?

Question

I have only found how to wait for user input. However, I only want to pause so that my while true doesn\'t crash my computer.

I tried pause(1)

Answer 1

use trap to pause and check command line (in color using tput) before running it

trap 'tput setaf 1;tput bold;echo $BASH_COMMAND;read;tput init' DEBUG

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use with set -x to debug command line

Answer 2

I realize that I'm a bit late with this, but you can also call sleep and pass the disired time in. For example, If I wanted to wait for 3 seconds I can do:

/bin/sleep 3

4 seconds would look like this:

/bin/sleep 4

Answer 3

Run multiple sleeps and commands

sleep 5 && cd /var/www/html && git pull && sleep 3 && cd ..

This will wait for 5 seconds before executing the first script, then will sleep again for 3 seconds before it changes directory again.

Answer 4

Within the script you can add the following in between the actions you would like the pause. This will pause the routine for 5 seconds.

read -p "Pause Time 5 seconds" -t 5
read -p "Continuing in 5 Seconds...." -t 5
echo "Continuing ...."