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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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