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The sleep command is used to pause execution of the script.
Two forms are available:
sleep seconds | Sleep for the specified number of seconds. |
sleep hh:mm | Sleep until an explicit time in the 24-hour clock. |
If an explicit time (hh:mm) is specified that already has occurred on the current day, the script will be paused until that time on the following day.
Parameters
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seconds |
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Number of seconds to sleep. |
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hh:mm |
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Explicit time to sleep until (based on a 24-hour clock). If the specified time is in the past (based on the current local time in the 24-hour cycle when the sleep command is executed), the script will pause until the specified time on the following day. |
Examples
To pause execution for 10 seconds:
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sleep 10 |
To pause execution until 10:30 p.m.:
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sleep 22:30 |
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If the explicit time form of the sleep command (sleep hh:mm) is used in a loop (for example, forfiles), iterations following the first sleep command are likely to be in the past (perhaps by 1 second), causing some iterations to sleep until the next day. For example, consider the following loop:
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