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sleep
: Delay for a specified time
sleep
pauses for an amount of time specified by the sum of
the values of the command line arguments.
Synopsis:
sleep number[smhd]... |
Each argument is a number followed by an optional unit; the default is seconds. The units are:
Historical implementations of sleep
have required that
number be an integer. However, GNU sleep
accepts
arbitrary floating point numbers.
The only options are `--help' and `--version'. See section 2. Common options.