blob: 7dbe996c96e4719d121e114cc1afdbdb12b9aea3 (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
|
.th SLEEP I 11/1/73
.sh NAME
sleep \*- suspend execution for an interval
.sh SYNOPSIS
.bd sleep
time
.sh DESCRIPTION
.it Sleep
will suspend execution for
.it time
seconds.
It is used to execute a command
in a certain amount of time as in:
.s3
(sleep 105; command)&
.s3
Or to execute a command every so often as in
this shell command file:
.s3
: loop
.br
command
.br
sleep 37
.br
goto loop
.sh "SEE ALSO"
sleep(II)
.sh BUGS
.it Time
must be less than 65536 seconds.
|
