NAME
sleep – delay for a specified amount of timeSYNOPSIS
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]…sleep OPTION
DESCRIPTION
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. 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
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.
Willie
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