sleep-original(1)

suspend execution for an interval

From the original Amiga UNIX 2.1 manual. Some things it mentions may not be in this release.

With the coreutil package (with the extra set), see sleep(1) instead.

Also by this name: sleep(3C), C library · sleep(3B), BSD C library

NAME

sleep - suspend execution for an interval

sleep time

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