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 seconds, 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.

REPORTING BUGS

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SEE ALSO

       sleep(3)

       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'

       Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu1)
       Copyright © 2025 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.

GNU coreutils 9.7                                 October 2025                                          SLEEP(1)