Manual: gnusleep

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, where NUMBER is an integer or floating-point.	 SUFFIX may be 's','m','h', or 'd', for sec‐
       onds, minutes, hours, days.  With multiple arguments, pause for 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.

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SEE ALSO
       sleep(3)

       Full documentation 
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'

       Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
       Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

GNU coreutils 9.7					January 2026						    SLEEP(1)