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sleep
Suspend execution for an interval (POSIX)
Syntax:
sleep time
Runs on:
Neutrino
Options:
- time
- A nonnegative decimal integer, from 0 to 4294967295, specifying the number of seconds to suspend execution.
Description:
The sleep utility suspends execution for at least the integral number of seconds specified by the time operand.
Exit status:
- 0
- The execution was successfully suspended for at least time seconds, or a SIGALRM signal was received.
- >0
- An error occurred.
Caveats:
The sleep utility takes the default action for all signals, except that sleep terminates normally with a zero exit status on receipt of a SIGALRM signal.
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