Purpose

Pause execution for specified time interval and print out
a dot every second to indicate that we are still alive

Usage

sleepdots <n>

Arguments

n = number of seconds to sleep

Output

Dots writen to stdout

Restrictions

None

Exit values

0 = normal completion
1 = wrong number of arguments

Example

1) Sleep for 60 seconds and print out dots every second

sleepdots 60