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.  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
     Report sleep bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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COPYRIGHT
     Copyright c 2009 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	redistri-
     bute  it.	 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
     law.

SEE ALSO
     sleep(3)

     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 invocation

     should give you access to the complete manual.






GNU coreutils 7.4     Last change: May 2009			1