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Date: | Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:52:35 PDT |
From: | "Rollin White" <rollin@scoug.com > |
Reply-To: | scoug-help@scoug.com |
To: | < "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com > |
Subject: | SCOUG-Help: "Wait" utility ? |
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:17:44 PDT, Peter Skye wrote:
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>I need a "WAIT" command line utility that can wait a specified number of
>minutes or hours. For example,
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> WAITMIN 30 to wait 30 minutes
> WAITHRS 2 to wait 2 hours
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>Searched around on Hobbes but found nothing. Any suggestions?
Something that can easily be done in REXX:
/* */
WAITMIN and WAITHR are left as an exercise for the reader :)
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call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
call SysLoadFuncs
PARSE ARG Seconds
if Seconds = '' then do
say 'Command line is WAIT
exit -1
end
say 'Sleeping for 'Seconds 'seconds'
call SysSleep Seconds
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