sleep - Delay for a specified amount of time

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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.  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/>
       Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2022 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'

GNU coreutils 9.1                 January 2024                         SLEEP(1)

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Title: sleep - Delay for a specified amount of time

Summary

The `sleep` command pauses execution for a specified duration. The duration can be specified in seconds (default), minutes ('m'), hours ('h'), or days ('d'). Multiple arguments can be provided, in which case the command pauses for the sum of the specified durations. The command also supports `--help` and `--version` options. It was written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert and is part of GNU coreutils.