[glug-t] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SLEEP)

From: Bharathi Subramanian <sbharathi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: GNU/Linux User Group of TCE <glugot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, GNU/Linux Users Group - Trichy <glug_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, VEC-FOSS <vecfoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:02:55 +0530 (IST)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command
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sleep/usleep -- Sleep for a specified amount of time

Summary :

Sleep will introduce a delay for a specified seconds (Seconds may be
an arbitrary floating point number). usleep sleeps some no of micro-
seconds (default is 1).

Examples :

$ sleep 6  -- Sleep for 6 Seconds.

$ sleep 6s -- Sleep for 6 Seconds (Default).

$ sleep 6m -- Sleep for 6 Minutes.

$ sleep 6h -- Sleep for 6 Hours.

$ sleep 6d -- Sleep for 6 Days.

$ sleep 10.5 -- sleep for 10.5 Seconds.

$ usleep 200 -- Sleep for 200 mSec.

Sleep may NOT give a very accurate result on many machines.

Read : man sleep , usleep

HTH :)
-- 
Bharathi S

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[glug-t] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (SLEEP)

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