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.TH SLEEP "1" "November 2014" "GNU coreutils 8.23" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
sleep \- delay for a specified amount of time
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sleep
\fINUMBER\fR[\fISUFFIX\fR]...
.br
.B sleep
\fIOPTION\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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.
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
sleep(3)
.PP
The full documentation for
.B sleep
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B sleep
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info coreutils \(aqsleep invocation\(aq
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.