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NAME

sleep, pause - suspend execution for an interval

SYNOPSIS

sleep n

pause

DESCRIPTION

Sleep suspends its own execution for n seconds before returning.

Pause never returns, and is typically used to stop a command interpreter reading any more from the standard input.

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/sleep.b
/appl/cmd/pause.b

SEE ALSO

sys-sleep(2)

SLEEP(1 ) Rev:  Thu Feb 15 14:42:47 GMT 2007