sleep(1)sleep(1)NAMEsleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSISsleep time
DESCRIPTIONsleep 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
FILES
/usr/lib/locale/locale/LC_MESSAGES/uxcore.abi
language-specific message file (see LANG on environ(5))
SEE ALSOalarm(2), sleep(3C)
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