Chaining

Chain any commands by using

  • the ; operator for sequential processing, one after another. Note that the next command does not await the previous command to "finish" or succeed.

  • the & operator for parallel processing of the chained commands at once.

While they are essentially the same you should use ; around sleep commands. Generally it might be a semantic help for different use cases. Both can be used with or without spaces on either side, use to your liking.

For example:

buy 1000$ btcusdt & buy 2000$ ethusdt

You could think of it as "do this AND do that at once". While:

buy 1000$; sleep 5s; buy 1000$ at -1%

you could think of it as "do this, THEN wait 5s, THEN do that".

Sleep

The sleep command introduce a timeout inside sequential command chains and allows for durational commands and ordering in the CLI. The syntax is: sleep <duration> where unit supports ms, s, m - seconds s are applied when the unit is omited. A max duration of 10min applies. Examples:

sleep 500, sleep 1s, sleep 2m

Task Management

Every chained command using sleep (and repeat command) has an ID assigned which is a session-local rolling counter maintained by the CLI. The IDs are shown via: Console log, tasks command and the Activity component.

Inside the CLI the following commands are available for control:

tasks               # list active CLI tasks only (IDs + command string)
kill                # kill the most-recent CLI task
kill 3              # kill task ID 3
kill all            # kill every running CLI task

UI for tasks via Activity component

Use the Activity component to monitor ongoing durational chained tasks. You can manually cancel repeat tasks .

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