XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:08:22 GMT, Mark Hobley wrote:   
   > I am reverse engineering some Gentoo startup scripts written using the   
   > runscript shell, for documentation purposes. Is there some sort of wait or   
   > pause command that I could insert at key points to pause the script for a few   
   > seconds following an echo command, so that I can examine some values during   
   > the boot process?   
   >   
   > For example, could I use the following to wait for 5 seconds?   
   >   
   > echo $value   
   > wait 5   
      
   sleep could work, but why not do something like   
      
   echo $value >> /tmp/deb.log   
      
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