How to pause a script in Bash

In order to make a script in Bash pause, sleep or wait for a period of time you need to use the command sleep

Using sleep in Bash

echo "hello"

sleep 60 ## this will sleep for 60 seconds

echo "after 60 sec"

Extra features

You can additionally specify the unit of time.

letter	unit
s default	seconds
m	minutes
h	hours
d	days