SLEEPSection: User Commands (1)Updated: October 2004 |
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.
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.COPYRIGHT
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.
SEE ALSO
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.