GNU/Linux |
Debian 6.0.9(Squeeze) |
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sleep(1) |
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sleep − delay for a specified amount of time
sleep
NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION
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
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
Report sleep
bugs to bug−coreutils@gnu.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
© 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.
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.
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