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SLEEP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2025
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NAME

sleep - delay for a specified amount of time  

SYNOPSIS

sleep ,NUMBER/[,SUFFIX/]...
sleep ,OPTION/  

DESCRIPTION

Pause for NUMBER seconds, where NUMBER is an integer or floating-point. SUFFIX may be 's','m','h', or 'd', for seconds, minutes, hours, days. With multiple arguments, pause for the sum of their values.

--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
 

AUTHOR

Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.  

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>  

SEE ALSO

sleep(3)


Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'


Packaged by Debian (9.7-3)
Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

 

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