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.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils AT gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO war-
ranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
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
should give you access to the complete manual.
sleep 5.2.1 July 2005 SLEEP(1)
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