124 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
124 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993, 1994
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)sleep.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
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.\" $Id: sleep.1,v 1.6 1997/02/22 14:05:44 peter Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd April 18, 1994
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.Dt SLEEP 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm sleep
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.Nd suspend execution for an interval of time
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm sleep
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.Ar seconds
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm sleep
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command
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suspends execution for a minimum of
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.Ar seconds .
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.Nm
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is used to schedule the execution of other commands (see
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.Sx EXAMPLES
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below).
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.Pp
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If the
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.Nm sleep
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command
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receives a SIGALRM signal, it terminates normally with a zero exit status,
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for any other signal it takes the standard action.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility exits with one of the following values:
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.Bl -tag -width flag
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.It Li \&0
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On successful completion, or if the signal
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.Dv SIGALRM
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was received.
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.It Li \&>\&0
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An error occurred.
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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To schedule the execution of a command for
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.Va x
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number seconds later:
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.Pp
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.Dl (sleep 1800; sh command_file >& errors)&
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.Pp
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This incantation would wait a half hour before
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running the script command_file. (See the
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.Xr at 1
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utility.)
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.Pp
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To reiteratively run a command (with the
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.Xr csh 1 ) :
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.Pp
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.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
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while (1)
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if (! -r zzz.rawdata) then
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sleep 300
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else
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foreach i (`ls *.rawdata`)
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sleep 70
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awk -f collapse_data $i >> results
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end
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break
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endif
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end
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The scenario for a script such as this might be: a program currently
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running is taking longer than expected to process a series of
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files, and it would be nice to have
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another program start processing the files created by the first
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program as soon as it is finished (when zzz.rawdata is created).
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The script checks every five minutes for the file zzz.rawdata,
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when the file is found, then another portion processing
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is done courteously by sleeping for 70 seconds in between each
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awk job.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr at 1 ,
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.Xr setitimer 2 ,
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.Xr alarm 3 ,
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.Xr sleep 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm sleep
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command is expected to be
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.St -p1003.2
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compatible.
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