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, where NUMBER is an integer or floating-point.
SUFFIX may be 's','m','h', or 'd', for seconds, minutes, hours, days.
With multiple arguments, pause for 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 bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <https://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(1)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'
GNU coreutils 9.10 March 2026 sleep(1)
coreutils 9.10 - Generated Thu Apr 2 16:02:38 CDT 2026