SLEEP(I) 11/1/73 SLEEP(I)
NAME
sleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSIS
sleep time
DESCRIPTION
Sleep will suspend 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
command file:
: loop
command
sleep 37
goto loop
SEE ALSO
sleep(II)
BUGS
Time must be less than 65536 seconds.