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bash case statement fall through Short answer is that there isn't a fall through. Here is an example from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_statement . Most people just want a or functionality so here is how you achieve that. case $n in 0 ) echo 'You typed 0.' ;; 1 | 9 ) echo " $n is a perfect square." ;; 3 | 5 | 7 ) echo " $n is a prime number." ;; 4 ) echo " $n is a perfect square. $n is an even number" ;; 2 | 6 | 8 ) echo " $n is an even number." ;; * ) echo 'Only single-digit numbers are allowed.' ;; esac

The short answer is sleep(0.0001) for a millisecond. sleep(0.0001) The details are that it's not that simple. Depending on your platform(OS) and details on thread sleeping, which I won't go into. When you get under a second and definitely under a tenth of a second accuracy really goes down the tubes. On some computers you won't see it work on less than a second. This is a complaint on some message boards. If you need much better accuracy look into realtime linux as your OS.

Bash move forward or backward a word on the command line shortcut keys Will move you forward one word on the command line ESC f Will move you backward one word on the command line ESC b