SLEEP(1)                                  User Commands                                  SLEEP(1)



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.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

AUTHOR
       Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This  is  free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not
       even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for sleep is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and sleep
       programs are properly installed at your site, the command

              info coreutils sleep

       should give you access to the complete manual.



sleep 5.2.1                               November 2008                                  SLEEP(1)