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NAME

sleep - suspend execution for a number of seconds

SYNOPSIS

sleep seconds

DESCRIPTION

sleep waits for a number of seconds, then exits successfully. The argument is taken as a decimal number with no fractional part.

ENVIRONMENT

The working of sleep is not influenced by any environment variables.

BUGS

sleep has no known bugs.

AUTHOR

The Perl implementation of sleep was written by Randy Yarger, randy.yarger@nextel.com.

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

This program is copyright by Randy Yarger 1999.

This program is free and open software. You may use, modify, distribute and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others to do the same.