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1.1     ! root        1: .\"    @(#)sleep.1     6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85
        !             2: .\"
        !             3: .TH SLEEP 1 "April 29, 1985"
        !             4: .AT 3
        !             5: .SH NAME
        !             6: sleep \- suspend execution for an interval
        !             7: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             8: .B sleep
        !             9: time
        !            10: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            11: .I Sleep
        !            12: suspends execution for
        !            13: .I time
        !            14: seconds.
        !            15: It is used to execute a command after a certain amount of time as in:
        !            16: .PP
        !            17:        (sleep 105; command)&
        !            18: .PP
        !            19: or to execute a command every so often, as in:
        !            20: .PP
        !            21:        while true
        !            22: .br
        !            23:        do
        !            24: .br
        !            25:                command
        !            26: .br
        !            27:                sleep 37
        !            28: .br
        !            29:        done
        !            30: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            31: setitimer(2), alarm(3C), sleep(3)
        !            32: .SH BUGS
        !            33: .I Time
        !            34: must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.

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