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- Synopsis:
- sleep <seconds>
- pause <seconds>
-
- Description:
- This suspends the client for the specified number of seconds. During
- this time, the client does absolutely nothing; it quite literally goes
- to sleep. In general, it is most useful in non-interactive automated
- scripts, and even these cases are fairly rare.
-
- The only external difference between SLEEP and PAUSE is that SLEEP
- blocks. The client stops everything until it is done sleeping. PAUSE,
- however, only pauses execution of the current code block. This allows
- the client to stop processing an alias temporarily without locking the
- whole client up.
-
- There are other commands more suited to the tasks that SLEEP is
- often used for. To wait a specified period of time before executing a
- command, use TIMER. To wait indefinitely for a command or server query
- to complete, use WAIT.
-
- See Also:
- timer(5); wait(5); usleep(5)
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