Running a command after a delay of n secs
 

Hi

Is there a command which will run a command I specify (this latter command will be the argument in the former one) after n seconds ?

Something like runlater "ls -l", 10

Thanks

'sleep n && ls -l' should do the trick. 'man sleep' for a full list of options.

regards,
...drkstr

What's wrong with the sleep command?

Example:

Oh...didnt know we could have && in shell - thanks.
So if I wanted a php script to execute after 10 secs,
sleep 10 && php path/scrtip.php will work ?

Or you can use "at"

Yup, you are just telling it to run the next command after the first one finishes. You can do as many as you want. I use it when I compile my kernel so I can just type one command and walk away until it finishes.

regards,
...drkstr