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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. Unlike most implemen- tations that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbi- trary 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

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report sleep translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2018 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(3) Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation' GNU coreutils 8.30 July 2018 SLEEP(1)

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