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Post 302392897 by drl on Saturday 6th of February 2010 06:25:27 AM
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sleep
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 imple- mentations 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 (C) 2017 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 '(coreutils) sleep invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 SLEEP(1)