1 .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35.
2 .TH SLEEP "1" "March 2007" "GNU coreutils 6.9" "User Commands"
4 sleep \- delay for a specified amount of time
7 \fINUMBER\fR[\fISUFFIX\fR]...
12 .\" Add any additional description here
14 Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be `s' for seconds (the default),
15 `m' for minutes, `h' for hours or `d' for days. Unlike most implementations
16 that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating
17 point number. Given two or more arguments, pause for the amount of time
18 specified by the sum of their values.
21 display this help and exit
24 output version information and exit
26 Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
28 Report bugs to <bug\-coreutils@gnu.org>.
30 Copyright \(co 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
32 This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
33 the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
34 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
38 The full documentation for
40 is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
44 programs are properly installed at your site, the command
48 should give you access to the complete manual.