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sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION
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
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul
Eggert.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright
© 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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 sleep
should give you access to the complete manual.
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