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@(#)sleep.1 6.2 (Berkeley) 06/24/90
All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
@(#)sleep.1 6.2 (Berkeley) 06/24/90
SLEEP 1 "%Q"
.AT 3
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.