.th SLEEP I 11/1/73 .sh NAME sleep \*- suspend execution for an interval .sh SYNOPSIS .bd sleep time .sh DESCRIPTION .it Sleep suspends execution for .it time seconds. It is used to execute a command in a certain amount of time as in: .s3 (sleep 105; command)& .s3 Or to execute a command every so often as in this shell command file: .s3 : loop .br command .br sleep 37 .br goto loop .sh "SEE ALSO" sleep (II) .sh BUGS .it Time must be less than 65536 seconds.