[Gllug] Delayed data feed

[Gerd]

Am I having deja vu or was it a different list where this was
discussed?  I will dig for it.
This is far more complex than you could possibly imagine and almost (on
it's own) worthy of a Tuesday talk!

Gerd.

On 12/01/2011 16:55, jayeola at gmail.com wrote:
> Sleep 30
>
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: - Tethys
> Sender: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk
> To: Greater London Linux User Group
> ReplyTo: Greater London Linux User Group
> Subject: [Gllug] Delayed data feed
> Sent: 12 Jan 2011 16:33
>
> Does anyone know of a simple delay utility that consumes data from
> stdin and outputs it on stdout a fixed time later? What I want to be
> able to do is:
>
> 	mkdata | delay 30 | send_data_to_customer
>
> That will send the (time sensitive) output of mkdata to the customer
> with a 30 second delay. The amount of data I'm talking about isn't so
> large that I need to worry about memory usage, and buffering it in RAM
> will work just fine. I can write it myself, but I'd rather not
> reinvent the wheel if someone's already done it.
>
> Tet
>

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