Shell Scripting: execute echo statements with a time delay

Question

Is there any way I could run several echo statements one after the other with a delay?

For example:

The first statement will be:

echo Hello1

after 1/2 second, run the Second echo statement:

echo Hello2

Likewise, is it possible to run several statements one after the other with a time delay without printing all echoes at once?

Blaise · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-19 10:01:43Z

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Perhaps you would like to use sleep <number of seconds> Like sleep 60 to wait for a minute.

eg. run from commandline

$ echo 'hello1'; sleep 2; echo 'hello2'

or in a bash script file (myscript.sh)

#!/bin/bash
echo 'hello1'
sleep 2
echo 'hello2 after 2 seconds'
sleep 2
echo 'hello3 after 2 seconds'

answered Feb 19, 2013 at 10:01

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Cristian Ciupitu · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-19 10:01:40Z

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echo Hello1
usleep 500000 # sleep 500,000 microseconds
echo Hello2

The usleep(1) command is part of the initscripts package on Fedora.

answered Feb 19, 2013 at 10:01

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mousetail · Accepted Answer · 2024-11-24 14:32:27Z

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for i in `echo "hello1 hello2 hello3"`; do echo $i; sleep 2; done

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answered Mar 4, 2015 at 3:06

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