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SLEEP (1)

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sleep - suspend execution for an interval

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sleep time

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

sh(1), sleep(3)