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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

AUTHOR

Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug−coreutils@gnu.org>.

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.