From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1985 08:56:12 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: manual page distributed with 4.1BSD
X-Git-Tag: BSD-4_3-Snapshot-Development~7556
X-Git-Url: https://git.subgeniuskitty.com/unix-history/.git/commitdiff_plain/1039c22a71bcc22e7a54cc906848d849009588ac?hp=9184d9df6cb41495738be1a1cc5f720000213484

manual page distributed with 4.1BSD

SCCS-vsn: bin/sleep/sleep.1 4.1
---

diff --git a/usr/src/bin/sleep/sleep.1 b/usr/src/bin/sleep/sleep.1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..009ae18ff5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/usr/src/bin/sleep/sleep.1
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+.\"	@(#)sleep.1	4.1 (Berkeley) %G%
+.\"
+.TH SLEEP 1 
+.AT 3
+.SH NAME
+sleep \- suspend execution for an interval
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B sleep
+time
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.I Sleep
+suspends execution for
+.I time
+seconds.
+It is used to execute a command
+after a certain amount of time as in:
+.PP
+	(sleep 105; command)&
+.PP
+or to execute a command every so often, as in:
+.PP
+	while true
+.br
+	do
+.br
+		command
+.br
+		sleep 37
+.br
+	done
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+alarm(2), sleep(3)
+.SH BUGS
+.I Time
+must be less than 2147483647 seconds.