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sleep

(1)

delay for a specified amount of time

User commands2 optionscoreutils 9.7-3
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]... sleep OPTION

Options

2
--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

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.

display this help and exit
output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

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