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Dan Wood afea49c6b3
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
2025-06-19 23:17:16 +03:00

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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