NAME¶

sleep - suspend execution for an interval

SYNOPSIS¶

sleep time

DESCRIPTION¶

Sleep suspends execution for time seconds.

EXAMPLES¶

Execute a command 100 seconds hence.

{sleep 100; command}&
    

Repeat a command every 30 seconds.

while (){
	command
	sleep 30
}
    

SOURCE¶

/src/cmd/sleep.c

SEE ALSO¶

sleep(3)