PMSLEEP(1)

💤 PMSLEEP(1) — General Commands Manual 💤

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about pmpause and <pmsleep>pmsleep</pmsleep> — your portable, subsecond-capable sleep girls. yes they're in the General Commands Manual, yes they're iconic, let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

pmpause, pmsleep — the portable sleep situation that can do subsecond timing, no cap 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmpause [-w where]
$PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmsleep [-w where] interval

that's it, that's the whole vibe. two little commands, one big mood ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

pmpause sleeps indefinitely — like, forever forever — until it gets interrupted by SIGKILL. that's the whole personality. it just vibes there. 😴

pmsleep is the one with commitment: it sleeps for the specified interval. and that interval argument follows the exact same syntax that PCPIntro(1) describes for -t. in the simplest form? it can just be an unsigned integer or a floating point constant — and in that case the implied units are seconds. simple as 🍓

the -w option is here to let you annotate your scripts — like, if you've got multiple uses of pmpause and/or pmsleep floating around, -w lets you tag a particular use so you can tell which one is which in the process's arguments. e.g. as visible to ps(1). it's giving name tag energy 🎀

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🔥 DIAGNOSTICS 🔥

okay so here's the tea:

• exit status is 0 for success 🎉
• exit status is 1 for a malformed command line 😭 (we've all been there)
• and if the underlying nanosleep(2) system call fails, an errno is returned 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

sleep(1), pause(2) and nanosleep(2) — go read those too, iykyk 📚✨

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Performance Co-Pilot 🫶 PCP — that's the source and version, bestie, and yes this page is literally titled PMSLEEP(1). mwah, go take a nap. 💖🌙