SLEEP(1)

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💤 SLEEP(1) — the General Commands Manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for sleep, living in the General Commands Manual section 1. yes, that sleep. the one that just... pauses. iconic behaviour honestly. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

sleep — Pause for NUMBER seconds. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly every time 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION

two whole moods. either you hand her a NUMBER (with an optional SUFFIX, and yes you can stack several of them), or you hand her an OPTION and she just tells you stuff instead of napping. 🦋

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Pause for NUMBER seconds.

fr fr that's the entire description. no notes. she waits, you vibe. ✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -h, --help — Print help. she'll tell you how to use her 🥰
  • -V, --version — Print version. receipts, but make it software 📜
  • <NUMBER> — pause for NUMBER seconds. the main character of this whole operation 👑

🔥 EXTRA 🔥

Okay so this is where it gets good, because sleep is not like the other girls (other implementations).

Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be:

  • 's' for seconds (this is the default btw, so if you don't say anything she assumes seconds 💅)
  • 'm' for minutes
  • 'h' for hours
  • 'd' for days

and here's the part that's giving main character energy: unlike most implementations that require *NUMBER* be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating point number. so like, 0.5 seconds? valid. 1.25 minutes? also valid. no cap, she'll do it 🌈

and if you're feeling extra and give her two or more arguments? she pauses for the amount of time specified by the sum of their values. she's adding them up for you, bestie, because she loves you 💜

⭐ VERSION ⭐

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

Delay in seconds:

sleep seconds

Execute a specific command after 20 seconds delay:

sleep 20 && command
The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. 🙈 lowkey important, don't come for her if an example acts up, she's literally still growing 🌱

and that's the whole page, bestie. she pauses, she's precise about it, she accepts fractions like a queen, and she'll stack your arguments into one big sum for you. 🎀

🌸 this page came from the uutils coreutils crew, dated 2026-09-25, and it's page SLEEP(1) of the General Commands Manual — so go forth, sleep responsibly, and hydrate while you wait 💖✨

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