3.6 Delay Lines

A delay line begins with an “at” sign ‘@’, and contains a single numeric value; a number of seconds to pause before continuing on to process further lines. The reseq program will obey these instructions only if it is given the --replay option.

     @ 3.0051

Delay lines are only issued by teseq when it has been given the -t option, which uses a timing file from ‘script -t’ to determine where to insert delays. Aside from that, delay lines can be useful for manual insertion into Teseq output, to introduce a delay at a particular point when using ‘reseq --replay’, which can aid in giving the user time to more easily observe terminal behavior.