Section 1 · User commands

sleep.1

Package: coreutils-common

SLEEP

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
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SEE ALSO

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

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2024 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.