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Old March 16th, 2006, 08:25 AM
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I need to insert a wait (pause the script) command for a random amount between 1 minuite and 1 hour of time before running the next command.

Example:

run this
run that
wait (random time)
run another


Can anyone help me with this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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The sleep command will do it for you, you just need to provide it with a suitable random number.
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How about:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

seconds=$(( (RANDOM%60+1)*60 ))

sleep $seconds
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