SLEEP

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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

alarm(2), sleep(3)  

BUGS

Time must be less than 65536 seconds.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
BUGS

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