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)

The sleep command is used as a pause. For example if you want some commands say disk space monitoring command, to execute after every 10 seconds then you can use the sleep command to pause for 10 seconds before the next time your commands are executed.

The sleep command allows and honors a non-integer number of seconds to sleep in any form acceptable by strtod(3). This is a non-portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that a shell script will not execute properly on another system.

Jul 21, 2009 · The source code has included the <windows.h> header file and the programmer has used the Sleep() function to wait for a period of milliseconds. This won't work on the Linux. This won't work on the Linux.

Nov 15, 2010 · @TobySpeight yes, if it will be an expression where you sum up two number msleep(1 + 2), then the macro substitution will be usleep(1 + 2 * 1000) will be 2001 instead of 3000 Making usleep ((X) * 1000) , guarantees that (1+2) will be evaluated first.

#!/usr/bin/env bash sleep 0.1 In other words, try to specify the shell explicitly. Then run either by: ./foo.sh or bash foo.sh. In case, sleep is an alias or a function, try replacing sleep with \sleep.

Feb 7, 2014 · Use the sleep command. Example: sleep .5 # Waits 0.5 second. sleep 5 # Waits 5 seconds. sleep 5s # Waits 5 seconds. sleep 5m # Waits 5 minutes. sleep 5h # Waits 5 hours. sleep 5d # Waits 5 days. One can also employ decimals when specifying a …

Nov 17, 2011 · I've marked sleep() function since if I substitute it with wait((int *)0); the processes flux is working how it was designed to (anyhow, without any timing). At this point I'm not sure anymore about process flux, or the sleep() usage (man pages wasn't that …

Nov 8, 2012 · sleep is not a shell built-in command. It is a utility that delays for a specified amount of time. The sleep command may support waiting in various units of time. GNU coreutils 8.4 man sleep says: SYNOPSIS sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]... DESCRIPTION Pause for NUMBER seconds.

Feb 5, 2010 · This might be one of the dumbest questions you've got, but please bear with me: I am a UNIX beginner. I had an test today and I was asked the following question: Q. How do you put the terminal into sleep indefinitely? I didn't know the answer, but after I came home, I tried the following command: sleep infinity it seems that this command puts the terminal to …