SLEEP(1) User Commands SLEEP(1)NAME
sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
SYNOPSIS
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be `s' for seconds (the default), `m' for minutes, `h' for hours or `d' for days. Unlike most imple-
mentations that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating point number. Given two or more arguments, pause
for the amount of time specified by the sum of their values.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
REPORTING BUGS
Report sleep bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO sleep(3)
The full documentation for sleep is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sleep programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'sleep invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 SLEEP(1)
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FALSE(1) User Commands FALSE(1)NAME
false - do nothing, unsuccessfully
SYNOPSIS
false [ignored command line arguments]
false OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Exit with a status code indicating failure.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of false, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's doc-
umentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report false bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report false translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for false is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and false programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'false invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 FALSE(1)
If I want a script to sleep for less than a second, would I use a decimal? In other words, if I wanted my script to sleep for 1/4 of a second, would I say, SLEEP .25 ?? (5 Replies)
Found this piece of code written in ksh. I have no ideas what do the stuff like ${SRF##*\.} do.
SUFFIX=${SRF##*\.}
if ; then
SUFFIX=""
fi
I have encountered similar expressions in other programs also. Any pointers on where to learn more about these... (1 Reply)
hi all
I process is sleeping after 12 hours but i need to be run this to 24 hours but it goes in sleep mode after 12 hours what should i do to make process always running.Kindly give me suggestion. (0 Replies)
I need to read the last line of a log file and save it, sleep for X minutes and read the last line again. If the line is the same, exit 1, otherwise sleep for X minutes until the last line contains 'Status: Process completed'. Can anyone offer advice here? Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I am working on a Solaris server which goes to sleep mode if idle for more than 30 min. I have a remote access so that I can access the server from my home too. By the time I go back to my room, it is going to sleep mode so I could see nothing but a black screen. Is there any option to... (3 Replies)