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 setitimer(2), alarm(3C), sleep(3) BUGS Time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds. 7th Edition April 29, 1985 SLEEP(1)
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