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NAME
       sleep - suspend execution for an interval


SYNOPSIS
       sleep time


DESCRIPTION
       Sleep suspends execution for time seconds.


EXAMPLES
       Execute a command 100 seconds hence.

              {sleep 100; command}&

       Repeat a command every 30 seconds.

              while (){      command      sleep 30 }


SOURCE
       /src/cmd/sleep.c


SEE ALSO
       sleep(3)

                                                                      SLEEP(1)