SLEEP(1) | User Commands | SLEEP(1) |
sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION
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.
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
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Full documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'
September 2022 | GNU coreutils 9.1 |