Pause a Linux Shell Script using Sleep

It’s easy to pause a shell script during execution. Just add: sleep 10 (where 10 is the number of seconds you want the script to pause.) Some code for testing would be… #!/bin/sh before=”$(date +%s)” echo $before sleep 3 after=”$(date...

Shell script date calculations

#!/bin/sh before=”$(date +%s)” echo $before sleep 5 Ymd=”$(date ‘+%Y%m%d’)” echo $Ymd after=”$(date +%s)” echo $after elapsed_seconds=”$(expr $after – $before)” echo Elapsed time for code block:...