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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 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

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

AUTHOR
       Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright   ©   2013   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  per‐
       mitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       sleep(3)

       The  full documentation for sleep is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and sleep programs are prop‐
       erly installed at your site, the command

              info coreutils 'sleep invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 8.22                                  November 2016                                            SLEEP(1)