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SLEEP(1) User Commands SLEEP(1)
sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]... sleep OPTION
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
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sleep(3) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'
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GNU coreutils 9.6 January 2025 SLEEP(1)
Pages that refer to this page: dbpmda(1), pmsleep(1), NS_GET_USERNS(2const), sleep(3)