sleep
suspend execution for an interval
TLDR
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. NUMBER need not be an integer. 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
REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
sleep(3) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.