sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
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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
Name
sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
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See Also
sleep(3) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation' GNU coreutils 9.5 April 2025 SLEEP(1)
Synopsis
sleepNUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleepOPTION