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Preventing macOS from sleeping
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There is a built-in command line utility caffeinate that can be used to prevent macOS from sleeping.

To prevent macOS from sleeping before a process with given PID exits:

$ caffeinate -w PID

To prevent macOS from sleeping for the next N seconds:

$ caffeinate -t N
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