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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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