How to delay between conversions

[DeadPark]

i'm trying to convert an e-book from a .ps file into 100 .png files.

i'm using

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for (( i=1; i <= 100; i++)) {
psselect -q $i book.ps book$i.ps
convert book$i.ps book$i.png
rm -f book$i.ps
}

what i want to know is, how can i make it pause a few seconds between pictures? the reason i ask is because after i convert the book into images, i want to send it to my psp. and anyone that owns a psp knows that it sorts the pictures by order of creation. even though the converter is converting them in order, it does it so fast that occasionally, page 3 will finish a split second before page 2, so the page order is all messed up on the psp.

if i could make it pause for a second or two between pages, that would clear everything up.

[fmw42]

try shell command sleep

http://www.ss64.com/bash/sleep.html

[DeadPark]

^_^ i'm still new to using shell commands. where would i put that command, and how would i write it?

[DeadPark]

oh, nevermind. i played with it and got it to work

thank you so much, that's exactly what i needed, that should fix it.

of course it's going to take a lot longer, but it'll read right, so it's a trade off