Is there a standard Unix shell command to pause for a given amount of time? One wouldn’t use this from the prompt, of course, but it might have its uses in scripts. Mine is to open a large number of files (local or Web), but not all at once:
cat list-of-files | xargs slow-open &
where slow-open looks like
#!/bin/sh
for i in $*
do
open $i
pause 60
done
It seems like unnecessary overkill to write pause in Python.
In unrelated news — I’ve heard that you can discourage vermin from stealing your pets’ food by setting out a sample spiked with emetic. Have you tried this, does it work? What drug is appropriate for a cat? A neighborhood tom has recently found our cats’ dish, and drops in every night as if he owns the place (if I’m not watching).
sleep 60As I remembered a few hours later while waiting for my passenger at Cody’s.