@(#)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.