Name
sleep — stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version
Synopsis
sleep time_specification
The sleep
command simply
waits a set amount of time. The given time specification can be an
integer (meaning seconds) or an integer followed by the letter
s
(also seconds), m
(minutes), h
(hours), or d
(days).
$ sleep 5m Do nothing for 5 minutes
sleep
is useful for
delaying a command for a set amount of time:
$ sleep 10 && echo 'Ten seconds have passed.'
(10 seconds pass)
Ten seconds have passed.
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