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SLEEP
1
March 2005
sleep 5.2.1
User Commands
  • 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.
      --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>.
  • COPYRIGHT
      Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  • SEE ALSO
      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

      should give you access to the complete manual.
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