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Command: sleep | Section: 1 | Source: UNIX v7 | File: sleep.1
SLEEP(1) General Commands Manual SLEEP(1)
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.
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