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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¶
Report sleep bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.orgCOPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.SEE ALSO¶
sleep(3) The full documentation for sleep is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sleep programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info coreutils 'sleep invocation'
September 2011 | GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb |