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.   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

AUTHOR

       Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

REPORTING BUGS

       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

       Copyright  ©  2013  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.

SEE ALSO

       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.

GNU coreutils 8.21                                 March 2016                                           SLEEP(1)