NAME
sleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSIS
sleep time
DESCRIPTION
Sleep suspends execution for time seconds. It is used to
execute a
command after a certain amount of time as in:
(sleep 105; command)&
or to execute a command every so often, as in:
while true
do
command
sleep 37
done
SEE ALSO
alarm(3), sleep(3)
BUGS
Time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.