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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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