sleep

Name

sleep -- delay for a specified amount of time

Synopsis

sleep [OPTION]... NUMBER[SUFFIX]

Description

The specification for sleep is as specified in the SUS but with the following differences.

LSB Deprecated Differences

The behaviors specified in this section are expected to disappear from a future version of the LSB; applications should only use the non-LSB-deprecated behaviors.

The operand to sleep in the SUS is the number of seconds to sleep for. As an extension, the number may be followed by s to keep seconds, m for minutes, h for hours or d for days.

--help

displays help and exits.

--version

outputs version information and exits.