onSecondsElapsedEvents triggered by time intervals
onSecondsElapsed events are triggered every n
seconds.
event onSecondsElapsed name=seconds { code block }
!event onSecondsElapsed name
<seconds> Duration in seconds. eg 60
would be 60 seconds / 1 minuteThe following payload is passed to the function via stdin:
{
"Name": "",
"Interrupt": 0
}
This is the name you specified when defining the event.
This is the duration you defined the event to wait for.
This event doesn’t have any $EVENT_RETURN
parameters.
event onSecondsElapsed example=60 {
out "60 seconds has passed"
}
Stdout and stderr are both written to the terminal.
event: Event driven programming for shell scriptsconfig: Query or define Murex runtime settingsThis document was generated from builtins/events/onSecondsElapsed/onsecondselapsed_doc.yaml.
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