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Kudos to andyford for his comments. Yes, as was said sleep, or the Time::HiRes version of it will sleep for $n seconds. It may also be a bad idea. If you're program is waiting for a process it kicks of to finish, it may be better to have the process send a signal to your program.

Why do you want your program to wait a few seconds? Tell us that and you'll probably get a much better answer than 'use sleep.'

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