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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`