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Script to ignore stdin for a $1 seconds
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ignore-stdin-for-secs.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Check if at least one numeric arg is passed
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 <seconds>"
exit 1
fi
# Read and discard input for 1 second
timeout $1 cat > /dev/null
# Read and print the rest of the input
cat
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