1SLEEP(1)                    General Commands Manual                   SLEEP(1)
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NAME

6       sleep - suspend execution for an interval
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SYNOPSIS

9       sleep time
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DESCRIPTION

12       Sleep  suspends  execution  for  time seconds.  It is used to execute a
13       command after a certain amount of time as in:
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17       or to execute a command every so often, as in:
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19            while true
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23            done
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SEE ALSO

26       setitimer(2), alarm(3C), sleep(3)
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BUGS

29       Time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.
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337th Edition                     April 29, 1985                        SLEEP(1)