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. 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: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sleep translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2018 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 at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'