SLEEP(1) UNIX 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 setitimer(2), alarm(3C), sleep(3) BUGS Time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds. Printed 11/26/99 April 29, 1985 1