NAME

sleep, pause − suspend execution for an interval

SYNOPSIS

­sleep ­n

­pause

DESCRIPTION

­Sleep suspends its own execution for ­n seconds before returning. 

­Pause never returns, and is typically used to stop a command interpreter reading any more from the standard input. 

SOURCE

­/appl/cmd/sleep.b
­/appl/cmd/pause.b

SEE ALSO

sys-sleep(2)

Plan 9  —  April 17, 2000