NAME

sleep − suspend execution for an interval

SYNOPSIS

sleep time

DESCRIPTION

Sleep suspends execution for time seconds.  It is used to execute a command in a certain amount of time as in: (sleep 105; command)& Or to execute a command every so often as in this shell command file: : loop
command
sleep 37
goto loop

SEE ALSO

sleep (II)

BUGS

Time must be less than 65536 seconds.