SLEEP(1) SLEEP(1) sleep - delay for a specified amount of time sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]... sleep 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 --version Jim Meyering Paul Eggert. GNU coreutils: (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GPLv3+: GNU GPL 3 . : . , . sleep(3) : info '(coreutils) sleep invocation' Kristijan Velkovski ; GNU 3(GPLv3) . . , Kris Fremen . GNU coreutils 9.6 2025 SLEEP(1)