SLEEP(1)SLEEP(1)NAMEsleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSISsleep 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 ALSOsetitimer(2), alarm(3C), sleep(3)BUGS
Time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.
7th Edition April 29, 1985 SLEEP(1)