NAME

       caffeinate - inhibit desktop idleness while a command runs

SYNOPSIS

       caffeinate COMMAND [ARGUMENT...]

DESCRIPTION

       Caffeinate  runs  the  given  command and prevents the desktop becoming idle while it is run, hence stops
       screen savers or power-saving activating even if the machine is not being used.

       It is usually more convenient to use the fully-automatic caffeine(1); caffeinate may be useful when it is
       impractical  or  impossible to run a program in full-screen mode, or to prevent automatic suspend kicking
       in during a long-running unattended command, such as a system update.

SEE ALSO

       caffeine(1), caffeine-indicator(1)

AUTHORS

       Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

                                                  January 2015                                     CAFFEINATE(1)