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SLEEP(1) | User Commands | SLEEP(1) |
NAME¶
sleep - delay for a specified amount of timeSYNOPSIS¶
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...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
AUTHOR¶
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.REPORTING BUGS¶
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.SEE ALSO¶
sleep(3) Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>March 2015 | GNU coreutils 8.23 |