SLEEP (1)

NAME

sleep - suspend execution for an interval

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
See Also

SYNOPSIS

sleep time

DESCRIPTION

The sleep command 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

sh(1), sleep(3)


Heirloom Toolchest SLEEP (1) 4/12/03
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