SLEEP(1) User Commands SLEEP(1)NAME
sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
SYNOPSIS
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days. Unlike most imple-
mentations that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating point number. Given two or more arguments, pause
for the amount of time specified by the sum of their values.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO 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 8.22 June 2014 SLEEP(1)
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SLEEP(1) User Commands SLEEP(1)NAME
sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
SYNOPSIS
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days. Unlike most imple-
mentations that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating point number. Given two or more arguments, pause
for the amount of time specified by the sum of their values.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO sleep(3)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 SLEEP(1)
If I want a script to sleep for less than a second, would I use a decimal? In other words, if I wanted my script to sleep for 1/4 of a second, would I say, SLEEP .25 ?? (5 Replies)
Found this piece of code written in ksh. I have no ideas what do the stuff like ${SRF##*\.} do.
SUFFIX=${SRF##*\.}
if ; then
SUFFIX=""
fi
I have encountered similar expressions in other programs also. Any pointers on where to learn more about these... (1 Reply)
hi all
I process is sleeping after 12 hours but i need to be run this to 24 hours but it goes in sleep mode after 12 hours what should i do to make process always running.Kindly give me suggestion. (0 Replies)
Hi,
I faced a problem when I try to populate a database using the following script
DECLARE
a NUMBER := 1;
b NUMBER := 91317010001;
c NUMBER := 1;
BEGIN
WHILE a < 5001 LOOP
insert into RGC_IMS_REGISTRATION (IMSRegId, Type, IMPI, IMPU, CP_ID, Location_For_Registration,... (1 Reply)
I need to read the last line of a log file and save it, sleep for X minutes and read the last line again. If the line is the same, exit 1, otherwise sleep for X minutes until the last line contains 'Status: Process completed'. Can anyone offer advice here? Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I wanted to run a particlar script for every 20 minutes. I dont have crontab in my server. Hence i ran this script in a loop by providing the command sleep 1200
Now i wanted to know is there any performance issue if this job keeps on execute in the server.
Thanks,
Puni (1 Reply)