Sleep

From Linuxintro
Revision as of 08:31, 21 April 2014 by imported>ThorstenStaerk (→‎See also)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

sleep is a command that waits for a given time. For example,

sleep 5

waits for 5 seconds.

sleep 1m

waits for 1 minute.

The command wait does something else, it waits for a process to change its state.

See also