Manual page for SLEEP(1)
sleep - suspend execution for a specified 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
sleep.3v
BUGS
time
must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.
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