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31 .\" @(#)sleep.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
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40 .Nd suspend execution for an interval of time
48 suspends execution for a minimum of
53 command receives a signal, it takes the standard action.
54 .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
57 signal is not handled specially by this implementation.
61 command will accept and honor a non-integer number of specified seconds
64 character as a decimal point).
66 This is a non-portable extension, and its use will nearly guarantee that
67 a shell script will not execute properly on another system.
72 To schedule the execution of a command for
74 number seconds later (with
77 .Dl (sleep 1800; sh command_file >& errors)&
79 This incantation would wait a half hour before
80 running the script command_file.
85 To reiteratively run a command (with the
88 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
90 if (! -r zzz.rawdata) then
93 foreach i (`ls *.rawdata`)
95 awk -f collapse_data $i >> results
102 The scenario for a script such as this might be: a program currently
103 running is taking longer than expected to process a series of
104 files, and it would be nice to have
105 another program start processing the files created by the first
106 program as soon as it is finished (when zzz.rawdata is created).
107 The script checks every five minutes for the file zzz.rawdata,
108 when the file is found, then another portion processing
109 is done courteously by sleeping for 70 seconds in between each
117 command is expected to be