NAME

sleep − suspend execution for an interval

SYNOPSIS

sleep [ −v ] 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

OPTIONS

−v prints the time remained every second. 

SEE ALSO

setitimer(2), alarm(3C), sleep(3)

BUGS

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

NEWS-OSRelease 4.2.1R