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sleep
sleep — suspend execution
Suspends execution of a console process for a specified number of seconds. The
console process temporarily wakes up every second to check for and kill pending
bits.
Syntax
sleep [-v] time_in_secs
Arguments
time_in_secs
Specifies the number of seconds to sleep. The default is one second.
Options
-v
Specifies that the value supplied is in milliseconds. The default is 1000 (one
second).
Examples
1.
>>> ((sleep 10; echo hi there)&)
>>>
(10 seconds expire...)
hi there
Sleep for 10 seconds then execute the echo command.
2.
>>> sleep -v 20
Sleep for 20 milliseconds.
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