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/>
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COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  ©  2020  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'