How do I sleep the Bash loop for certain seconds?

Question

Say I have a Bash loop like this:

declare -a arr=("ALD89117.1" "ALD89128.1" "ALD89126.1")
for i in "${arr[@]}"
do
   echo "myid :" $i
# I want to sleep the process for 0.1 seconds here!!
esearch -db protein -query $i | elink -target nuccore | efetch -format ft

done > >(tee eutils_output.txt) 2>&1

I want to sleep the process in the above loop for 0.1 seconds. What would be the command to do that?

Note that the `$i` dereferences should all be quoted (`echo "myid: $i"`; `esearch -db protein -query "$i"`) to prevent string-splitting and glob expansion from applying; consider running your code through http://shellcheck.net/. — Charles Duffy, Oct 29 '18 at 15:58

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '18 at 15:53

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sleep 0.1

It doesn't get much easier than that!

answered Oct 29 '18 at 15:53

Thomas

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How do I sleep the Bash loop for certain seconds?

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