


      SLEEP(1)                    (UNIX 5.0)                   SLEEP(1)



      NAME
           sleep - suspend execution for an interval

      SYNTAX
           sleep time

      DESCRIPTION
           Sleep suspends execution for time seconds.  It is used to
           execute a command after a certain amount of time:

                (sleep 105; command)&

           or to execute a command every so often:

                while true
                do
                     command
                     sleep 37
                done

           Time is a virtually unlimited integer.

      SEE ALSO
           alarm(2), sleep(3C).































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