SLEEP(1) SLEEP(1) sleep - delay for a specified amount of time sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]... sleep Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days. NUMBER need not be an integer. Given two or more arguments, pause for the amount of time specified by the sum of their values. --help --version Jim Meyering Paul Eggert. GNU coreutils: (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GPLv3+: GNU GPL 3 . : . , . sleep(3) : info '(coreutils) sleep invocation' Kristijan Velkovski ; GNU 3(GPLv3) . . , Kris Fremen . GNU coreutils 9.4 2024 SLEEP(1)