SLEEP(1)                GENIX Programmer's Manual                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

      SEE ALSO
           alarm(2), sleep(3)

      BUGS
           Time must be less than 2147483647 seconds.






























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