SLEEP
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Updated: GNU Shell Utilities
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NAME
sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
SYNOPSIS
sleep
[--help] [--version] number[smhd]...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
sleep.
sleep
pauses for an amount of time specified by the sum of the values of the
command line arguments. Each argument is a number followed by an
optional unit; the default is seconds. The units are:
- s
-
seconds
- m
-
minutes
- h
-
hours
- d
-
days
OPTIONS
- --help
-
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- --version
-
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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