[Nottingham] Perl help - 'sleep'

[Graeme Fowler]

On Thu 14 Jul 2005 12:24:56 BST , Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> What is the perl command to pause/sleep for a number of minutes?
>
> eg: The perl equivalent of the Bash "sleep 30m"?

sleep 1800;

man perlfunc:

       sleep   Causes the script to sleep for EXPR seconds, or
               forever if no EXPR.  May be interrupted if the
               process receives a signal such as SIGALRM.
               Returns the number of seconds actually slept.  You
               probably cannot mix alarm() and sleep() calls,
               because sleep() is often implemented using
               alarm().


Graeme
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