delay(1)

delay1

A constant delay generator

Usage

delay [-b bufsize] [delay]

Overview

delay introduces a constant delay between its standard input and its standard output. The data from its stdin will be stored until it has been written to stdout. The required delay argument specifies the delay time in millisecond.

delay supports the following options:

delay
delay is the desired delay time, in milliseconds. The following modifiers are accepted:
12s means 12 seconds
12m means 12 minutes
12h means 12 hours

-b bufsize
buffer size stores the data until it has been written to stdout, in bytes. The following modifiers are accepted:
12k means 12Kb
12m means 12Mb
12g means 12Gb

Examples

delay the output of command_A to command_B by 5 seconds:
        $ command_A | delay 5s | command_B
delay the output of command_A to command_B by 5 seconds with 10MB buffer:
        $ command_A | delay -b 10m 5s | command_B

Home

https://github.com/rom1v/delay

Releases

Unchanged in 4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster).

  1. 10–13

Authors

Romain Vimont ⟨[email protected]⟩

From delay 1.0-6 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.