tldr/pages/osx/caffeinate.md

# caffeinate

> Prevent macOS from sleeping.
> More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/caffeinate.8.html>.

- Prevent the display from sleeping:

`caffeinate -d`

- Prevent from sleeping for 1 hour (3600 seconds):

`caffeinate -u -t {{3600}}`

- Fork a process, exec "make" in it, and prevent sleep as long as that process is running:

`caffeinate -i make`

- Prevent from sleeping until a process with the specified PID completes:

`caffeinate -w {{pid}}`

- Prevent disk from sleeping (use `<Ctrl c>` to exit):

`caffeinate -m`
A bunch of new pages: common/: dig, gzip, rm, sort, zfs, zpool linux/: apt-get, shutdown osx/: airport, caffeinate, diskutil, networksetup open, pgrep, qlmanage, say, shutdown, sysctl, system_profiler Edits to existing pages: curl: Added simple download example find: Added iname and size exmaples grep: Edited -c description ps: Added wide lines example ssh: edited -D description, added simple port forwarding example unzip: added list option 2014-02-10 12:36:05 -08:00			`# caffeinate`

*: fix errors reported by languagetool (#6069) 2021-08-15 19:59:09 +02:00			`> Prevent macOS from sleeping.`
pages.*: use keith.github.io for builtin man pages (#12168) 2024-01-31 07:20:27 -03:00			`> More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/caffeinate.8.html>.`
A bunch of new pages: common/: dig, gzip, rm, sort, zfs, zpool linux/: apt-get, shutdown osx/: airport, caffeinate, diskutil, networksetup open, pgrep, qlmanage, say, shutdown, sysctl, system_profiler Edits to existing pages: curl: Added simple download example find: Added iname and size exmaples grep: Edited -c description ps: Added wide lines example ssh: edited -D description, added simple port forwarding example unzip: added list option 2014-02-10 12:36:05 -08:00
caffeinate: add -d and fix -i example (#16899) * Update caffeinate.md Add -d command to prevent display from sleeping (most useful one to know imo). Remove `-s` because it functions like `-i` except that it only works while on AC power Better description for `-i` * Add colon to end of example 2025-06-20 06:17:16 +10:00			`- Prevent the display from sleeping:`

			`caffeinate -d`

caffeinate: added -i option (#1719) 2017-12-01 06:59:56 +00:00			`- Prevent from sleeping for 1 hour (3600 seconds):`
A bunch of new pages: common/: dig, gzip, rm, sort, zfs, zpool linux/: apt-get, shutdown osx/: airport, caffeinate, diskutil, networksetup open, pgrep, qlmanage, say, shutdown, sysctl, system_profiler Edits to existing pages: curl: Added simple download example find: Added iname and size exmaples grep: Edited -c description ps: Added wide lines example ssh: edited -D description, added simple port forwarding example unzip: added list option 2014-02-10 12:36:05 -08:00
caffeinate: added -i option (#1719) 2017-12-01 06:59:56 +00:00			`caffeinate -u -t {{3600}}`
A bunch of new pages: common/: dig, gzip, rm, sort, zfs, zpool linux/: apt-get, shutdown osx/: airport, caffeinate, diskutil, networksetup open, pgrep, qlmanage, say, shutdown, sysctl, system_profiler Edits to existing pages: curl: Added simple download example find: Added iname and size exmaples grep: Edited -c description ps: Added wide lines example ssh: edited -D description, added simple port forwarding example unzip: added list option 2014-02-10 12:36:05 -08:00
caffeinate: add -d and fix -i example (#16899) * Update caffeinate.md Add -d command to prevent display from sleeping (most useful one to know imo). Remove `-s` because it functions like `-i` except that it only works while on AC power Better description for `-i` * Add colon to end of example 2025-06-20 06:17:16 +10:00			`- Fork a process, exec "make" in it, and prevent sleep as long as that process is running:`
A bunch of new pages: common/: dig, gzip, rm, sort, zfs, zpool linux/: apt-get, shutdown osx/: airport, caffeinate, diskutil, networksetup open, pgrep, qlmanage, say, shutdown, sysctl, system_profiler Edits to existing pages: curl: Added simple download example find: Added iname and size exmaples grep: Edited -c description ps: Added wide lines example ssh: edited -D description, added simple port forwarding example unzip: added list option 2014-02-10 12:36:05 -08:00
caffeinate: add -d and fix -i example (#16899) * Update caffeinate.md Add -d command to prevent display from sleeping (most useful one to know imo). Remove `-s` because it functions like `-i` except that it only works while on AC power Better description for `-i` * Add colon to end of example 2025-06-20 06:17:16 +10:00			`caffeinate -i make`
caffeinate: added -i option (#1719) 2017-12-01 06:59:56 +00:00
caffeinate: add `-w` flag example (#10749) Co-authored-by: Lena <126529524+acuteenvy@users.noreply.github.com> 2023-09-23 11:36:18 -04:00			`- Prevent from sleeping until a process with the specified PID completes:`

			`caffeinate -w {{pid}}`

pages/osx/: apply keypress specifications (#15858) 2025-03-07 14:02:32 +02:00			- Prevent disk from sleeping (use `<Ctrl c>` to exit):
caffeinate: add -m example (#9187) 2022-10-21 09:49:50 +05:30
			`caffeinate -m`