Man Pages - Manpage for sleep

Posted May 26th, 2004 in Man Pages (Updated June 15th, 2004)

man page for the unix linux bsd command sleep

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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@gnu.org>.