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"This will disable display sleep and computer sleep:

do shell script "sudo pmset displaysleep 0 sleep 0" password "your password" with administrator privileges

The arguments for sleep and displaysleep are minutes. This will set display sleep to 5 minutes, and computer sleep to 30 minutes:

do shell script "sudo pmset displaysleep 5 sleep 30" password "your password" with administrator privileges"

On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:42PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

On Jun 11, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Lists wrote:

On Jun 11, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:

Does anyone know of a simple command that will temporarily inhibit sleep for a short time?
(I would not like to change any defaults.)

In Terminal you can use:

pmset noidle

Unsure of how you would use it in a "do shell script" though.

There's nothing to do but to test. I added this to my script

try
do shell script "pmset noidle" --****************
on error errtext number errNr
"Error = " & errNr & return & errtext
display dialog the result
end try

display dialog "Begin time out ..."

The line halts the script. I can see in Activity Monitor that 'pmset' is running.
I wait awhile, then ...
When I quit 'pmset' via Activity Monitor,
I get the error message dialog,
then I get the "Begin time out " dialog

Either this will not work or more is needed in the do shell script line.

References:
	>Inhibiting Sleep (From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Inhibiting Sleep (From: Lists <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Inhibiting Sleep (From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>)