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.