Delay before the file transfer on Linux or Solaris

Question

I would like to put delay before file transfer on Linux or Solaris.

As far as i know scp commands has no delay option.

scp file_name root@dest_ip:/dest_path

So, how can i put delay (it can change between 250ms and 500ms)?

Answer 1

Are looking to delay just this one call or are you trying to delay each file from the remote directory?

For one call you can use: scp file_name root@dest_ip:/dest_path (for f in seq 1 10; do sleep 0.5; done)