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SLEEP(1)                    General Commands Manual                   SLEEP(1)



NAME
       sleep - suspend execution for an interval

SYNOPSIS
       sleep time

DESCRIPTION
       Sleep suspends execution for time seconds.  Time may be floating-point.

EXAMPLES
       Execute a command 100 seconds hence.

              {sleep 100; command}&

       Repeat a command every 30 seconds.

              while (){
                   command
                   sleep 30
              }

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/sleep.c

SEE ALSO
       sleep(2)



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