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. NUMBER need not be an
integer. 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
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version 3 or later <https://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(1)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'
GNU coreutils 9.1 April 2022 sleep(1)
coreutils 9.1 - Generated Fri Aug 12 05:49:56 CDT 2022