How do I pause my shell script for a second before continuing?

Question

I have only found how to wait for user input. However, I only want to pause so that my while true doesn\'t crash my computer.

I tried pause(1)

Answer 1

I realize that I'm a bit late with this, but you can also call sleep and pass the disired time in. For example, If I wanted to wait for 3 seconds I can do:

/bin/sleep 3

4 seconds would look like this:

/bin/sleep 4