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.TH SLEEP "1" "March 2007" "GNU coreutils 6.9" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
sleep \- delay for a specified amount of time
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sleep
\fINUMBER\fR[\fISUFFIX\fR]...
.br
.B sleep
\fIOPTION\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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.
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to <bug\-coreutils@gnu.org>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.br
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
sleep(3)
.PP
The full documentation for
.B sleep
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B sleep
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info sleep
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.