SLEEP(1)
NAME
sleep − suspend execution for an interval
USAGE
sleep time
DESCRIPTION
Sleep suspends execution for time seconds. You may use it 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
CAUTIONS
Time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.