redhat man page for sleep

SLEEP(1)								FSF								  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.

       --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 <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2002 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 PARTICU-
       LAR 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 sleep

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 4.5.3						   February 2003							  SLEEP(1)