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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  implemen-
       tations	that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbi-
       trary 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

       GNU  coreutils  online  help:  <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR
       Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2013 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)

       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 8.22		 February 2016			      SLEEP(1)