NAME

sleep − suspend execution for an interval

SYNOPSIS

sleep time

HP-UX COMPATIBILITY

Level: HP-UX/STANDARD

Origin: System V

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

alarm(2), sleep(3C). 

BUGS

Time must be less than 65536 seconds. 
 

Hewlett-Packard  —  last mod. May 11, 2021