SLEEP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 29, 1985
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NAME

sleep - suspend execution for an interval

SYNOPSIS

sleep time

DESCRIPTION

Sleep suspends execution for time seconds. It is used to execute a command after a certain amount of time as in:

(sleep 105; command)&

or to execute a command every so often, as in:

       while true

       do

               command

               sleep 37

       done

SEE ALSO

setitimer(2), alarm(3C), sleep(3)

BUGS

Time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
BUGS

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