SLEEP(1) User Commands SLEEP(1)
NAME
sleep – delay for a specified amount of time
SYNOPSIS
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]…
sleep OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be ‘s’ for seconds (the
default), ‘m’ for minutes, ‘h’ for hours or ‘d’ for days. Unlike
most implementations that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER
may be an arbitrary floating point number. Given two or more
arguments, pause for the amount of time specified by the sum of their
values.
–help display this help and exit
–version
output version information and exit
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AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
sleep(3)
The full documentation for sleep is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and sleep programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils ‘sleep invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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GNU coreutils 8.23 December 2014 SLEEP(1)