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Manual Reference Pages  - SLEEP (1)

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sleep - delay for a specified amount of time

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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 coreutils sleep

should give you access to the complete manual.

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