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1.1     ! root        1: .TH SLEEP 1  "10 February 1983"
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: sleep \- suspend execution for an interval
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B sleep
        !             6: time
        !             7: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             8: .I Sleep
        !             9: suspends execution for
        !            10: .I time
        !            11: seconds.
        !            12: It is used to execute a command after a certain amount of time as in:
        !            13: .PP
        !            14:        (sleep 105; command)&
        !            15: .PP
        !            16: or to execute a command every so often, as in:
        !            17: .PP
        !            18:        while true
        !            19: .br
        !            20:        do
        !            21: .br
        !            22:                command
        !            23: .br
        !            24:                sleep 37
        !            25: .br
        !            26:        done
        !            27: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            28: setitimer(2), alarm(3C), sleep(3)
        !            29: .SH BUGS
        !            30: .I Time
        !            31: must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.

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