.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.49.2. .TH SLEEP "1" "August 2022" "GNU coreutils 8.32" "User Commands" .SH NAME sleep \- manual page for sleep 8.32 .SH SYNOPSIS .B sleep \fI\,NUMBER\/\fR[\fI\,SUFFIX\/\fR]... .br .B sleep \fI\,OPTION\/\fR .SH DESCRIPTION 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. .TP \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit .TP \fB\-\-version\fR output version information and exit .PP GNU coreutils online help: Report any translation bugs to Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation' .SH AUTHOR Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert. .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . .br This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.