Easiest way to make lua script wait/pause/sleep/block for a few seconds?

Question

I cant figure out how to get lua to do any common timing tricks, such as

• sleep - stop all action on thread

• pause/wait - don\'t go on to the

Answer 1

I believe for windows you may use: os.execute("ping 1.1.1.1 /n 1 /w >nul as a simple timer. (remove the "<>" when inserting the time in milliseconds) (there is a space between the rest of the code and >nul)