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.TH SLEEP "1" "January 2023" "GNU coreutils 9.1" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
sleep \- manual page for sleep 9.1
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sleep
\fI\,NUMBER\/\fR[\fI\,SUFFIX\/\fR]...
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.B sleep
\fI\,OPTION\/\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default),
\&'m' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days. NUMBER need not be an
integer. Given two or more arguments, pause for the amount of time
specified by the sum of their values.
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
GNU coreutils online help:
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Full documentation
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.