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 © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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 | |