[Gllug] Imposing a delay in a pipeline

[- Tethys]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Andy Millar <andy at andymillar.co.uk> wrote:

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

With the amount of data I'm talking about, starting a new process per
line would quickly bring the machine to its knees...

Tet

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