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Name

sleep

Synopsis

Pause the build for a specified amount of time.

Attributes

failonerror (1.4, boolean, N): If true, the build fails when any error occurs while sleeping. Defaults to true.
hours (1.4, int, N): The number of hours.
milliseconds (1.4, int, N): The number of milliseconds.
minutes (1.4, int, N): The number of minutes.
seconds (1.4, int, N): The number of seconds.

Content

None.

Example Usage

<!-- start a web server, then wait a few seconds for it to initialize -->
<sleep seconds="10"/>
<!-- now start the client unit tests -->

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