SLEEP(1)                                                  User Commands                                                 SLEEP(1)



NAME
       sleep - delay for a specified amount of time

SYNOPSIS
       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
       Report sleep bugs to bug-coreutilsATgnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>;
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>;
       Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>;

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright   (C)   2010   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.

SEE ALSO
       sleep(3)

       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 invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 8.5                                         November 2010                                                 SLEEP(1)