[ale] Perl

Chris Hamilton chrish at ifsintl.com
Fri May 15 12:45:39 EDT 1998


> Example - "sleep 10s" will cause a system to wait 10 seconds before
> executing the next line in the script.
> 
> Is there a similar function in Perl?

Yup! It's called 'sleep' :-)

Take a look at 'man perlfunc' .. that will give you a comprehensive look
at all the builtin perl functions. For reference, 'perldoc -f <fn>' will
save you time when you know the function, but want info on syntax, et al

Chris

:q!

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Christopher Hamilton            Internal System Administrator
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