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Re: suspend execution of a script
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Re: suspend execution of a script


  • Subject: Re: suspend execution of a script
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:19:07 -0700

At 18:48 +0100 2/12/05, Guido Casiraghi wrote:
>I want to suspend the execution of a script for a fixed timeout (this is usually called "sleep" in other languages)

It has been said that:

do shell script  "sleep  600"

will use fewer memory cycles allowing other processes more free time. I'm not sure it's still true.

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