NAME
sleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSIS
sleep time
DESCRIPTION
Sleep suspends execution for time seconds. It is used to
execute a command in a certain amount of time as in:
(sleep 105; command)&
Or to execute a command every so often as in this shell com-
mand file:
: loop
command
sleep 37
goto loop
SEE ALSO
sleep (II)
BUGS
Time must be less than 65536 seconds.
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