## 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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 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)

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