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

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Problem

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

Solution

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

Code Snippets

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

Context

tldr-pages: osx/caffeinate

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