SPUG: Sleep

[Tim Maher]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:35:09PM -0600, Medrano-Zaldivar, L E wrote:
> List,
> 
> I need to put sleep a script for 5 min and after that I need
> for the script to keep running how can I do that?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Luis

# Ready to sleep for 5 minutes
sleep (5*60);
# Awake, now script resumes

See "perldoc -f sleep" for additional details.

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