07-04-2001
The sleep command is very useful for producing time delays.
"sleep 10" would producea 10 second delay
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sleep
sleep(1) User Commands sleep(1)
NAME
sleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/sleep
/usr/bin/sleep time
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sleep time
DESCRIPTION
/usr/bin/sleep
sleep suspends execution for at least the integral number of seconds specified by time.
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sleep suspends execution for at least the time in seconds specified by time or until a SIGALRM signal is received.
OPERANDS
/usr/bin/sleep
The following operands are supported for /usr/bin/sleep:
time time in seconds can be specified as a non-negative decimal integer number.
ksh93
The following operands are supported:
time Specify time in seconds as a floating point number. The actual granularity depends on the underlying system, normally around 1 mil-
lisecond.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Suspending Command Execution
The following example executes a command after a certain amount of time:
example% (sleep 105; command)&
Example 2 Executing a Command Every So Often
The following example executes a command every so often:
example% while true
do
command
sleep 37
done
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of sleep: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 The execution was successfully suspended for at least time seconds, or a SIGALRM signal was received (see NOTES).
>0 An error has occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
/usr/bin/sleep
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Committed |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Standard |See standards(5). |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ksh93(1), wait(1), alarm(2), sleep(3C), wait(3UCB), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)
NOTES
If the sleep utility receives a SIGALRM signal, one of the following actions is taken:
o Terminate normally with a zero exit status.
o Effectively ignore the signal.
The sleep utility takes the standard action for all other signals.
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