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@(#)sleep.1 6.1 (Berkeley) 04/29/85

SLEEP 1 ""
.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.