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. NUMBER need not be an integer. 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
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
GNU coreutils
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sleep(3)
Full
documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep
invocation'