sleep(1)sleep(1)Namesleep - suspend execution for a time
Syntaxsleep time
Description
The 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
Restrictions
The time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.
See Alsosetitimer(2), alarm(3), sleep(3)sleep(1)