[Gllug] Imposing a delay in a pipeline

[Andy Millar]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 17:05 +0100, Andy Millar wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 16:07 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > Actually, that's not going to work either, is it?
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> while read line ; do
>     echo $line
>     sleep $1
> done

Nope, I've just been reliably informed that that doesn't work, so you
could probably :

#!/bin/bash
while read line ; do
    ( sleep $1 ; echo $line ) &
done

Andy
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