sleep

Examples (TL;DR)

• Delay in seconds: sleep seconds
• Delay in minutes: sleep minutesm
• Delay in hours: sleep hoursh

tldr.sh

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.  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

Author

Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

Reporting Bugs

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Copyright

Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'

Referenced By

bpf(2), chat(8), clone(2), dbpmda(1), filechan(8), ibv_read_counters(3), ioctl_ns(2), mongoc_cursors(3), mongoc_guides(3), mongoc_reference(3), nut.conf(5), perlsyn(1), perlthrtut(1), pmClearFetchGroup(3), pmpause(1), pthread_getcpuclockid(3), sleep(3), usleep(1).