Re: SECONDS=0 does not reset SECONDS, or I'm missing something

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 03:52:50PM +0200, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> I might have been a bit imprecise in describing my issue.
> 
> Most of the time, removing the directories takes less than a second.
> For these cases, I don't want to execute the sleep at all.  Only when a
> call to rm takes more than one second do I want to sleep.

So, use "time rm ..." with the TIMEFORMAT variable set how you like.
Capture the output of time into a variable (trickier than it sounds),
and then sleep only if the variable does not match 0.* .

See <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/032> for help capturing time's
output.