sleep man page on Ultrix

sleep man page on Ultrix

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sleep(1)							      sleep(1)

Name
       sleep - suspend execution for a time

Syntax
       sleep 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 Also
       setitimer(2), alarm(3), sleep(3)

								      sleep(1)

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