NAME

sleep − suspend execution for a specified interval

SYNOPSIS

sleep time

DESCRIPTION

sleep 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

SEE ALSO

sleep(3V)

BUGS

time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds. 

Sun Release 4.1  —  Last change: 9 September 1987