sleep
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| :sleep: /vi./ 1. [techspeak] To relinquish a claim (of a process on a multitasking system) for service; to indicate to the scheduler that a process may be deactivated until some given event occurs or a specified time delay elapses. 2. In jargon, used very similarly to /v./ block; also in sleep on, syn. with block on. Often used to indicate that the speaker has relinquished a demand for resources until some (possibly unspecified) external event: "They cant get the fix Ive been asking for into the next release, so Im going to sleep on it until the release, then start hassling them again." | |
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NAME
sleep - delay for a specified amount of timeSYNOPSIS
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 implementations that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating point number.
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
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 sleep
should give you access to the complete manual.
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Updated Time:: 11:14:04 GMT, November 23, 2008
