• 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 sleep bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
  GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
  General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
• COPYRIGHT
  
  Copyright © 2009 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 (aqsleep invocation(aq
  
  should give you access to the complete manual.

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