sleep(1)                                                 sleep(1)



     NAME
          sleep - suspend execution for an 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

     EXAMPLES
          label:

               command >> x
               command >> x
               date >> x
               sleep 10
               goto label

          The preceding sh(1) script would execute the two commands
          and append the results to file x, then sleep for 10 seconds
          and repeat the process.

     FILES
          /bin/sleep

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

     BUGS
          time must be less than 65536 seconds.














     April, 1990                                                     1