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NAME

6       sleep - delay for a specified amount of time
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SYNOPSIS

9       sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
10       sleep OPTION
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DESCRIPTION

13       Pause for NUMBER seconds.  SUFFIX may be `s' for seconds (the default),
14       `m' for minutes, `h' for hours or `d' for days.  Unlike most  implemen‐
15       tations  that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbi‐
16       trary floating point number.  Given two or more  arguments,  pause  for
17       the amount of time specified by the sum of their values.
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19       --help display this help and exit
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22              output version information and exit
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AUTHOR

25       Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
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REPORTING BUGS

28       Report sleep bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
29       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
30       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
31       Report sleep translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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34       Copyright  ©  2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
35       GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
36       This is free software: you are free  to  change  and  redistribute  it.
37       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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SEE ALSO

40       sleep(3)
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42       The full documentation for sleep is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
43       the info and sleep programs are properly installed at  your  site,  the
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52GNU coreutils 8.5                November 2010                        SLEEP(1)
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