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caffeinate

Prevent macOS from sleeping. More information: https://ss64.com/osx/caffeinate.html.

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

caffeinate -u -t {{3600}}

• Prevent from sleeping until a command completes:

caffeinate -s "{{command}}"

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

caffeinate -w {{pid}}

• Prevent from sleeping (use Ctrl + C to exit):

caffeinate -i

• Prevent disk from sleeping (use Ctrl + C to exit):

caffeinate -m