SLEEP(1)

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version 9.12 · 28 versions
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✨ SLEEP(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to sleep(1), a User Commands classic 🛌💤 — literally the "delay for a specified amount of time" girlie. she's in the GNU coreutils manual and she is SO underrated.

🌸 NAME 🌸

sleep — delay for a specified amount of time ⏳

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Pause for NUMBER seconds, where NUMBER is an integer or floating-point. no cap, you can be fancy with it.

SUFFIX may be 's', 'm', 'h', or 'd', for seconds, minutes, hours, days. pick your vibe, bestie 🕐

With multiple arguments, pause for the sum of their values. yes she'll add them all up for you, she's generous like that 💅

  • --help — display this help and exit 🫶
  • --version — output version information and exit ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert. icons, both of them, fr fr 🏆

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Report bugs to: <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. Report any translation bugs to: <https://translationproject.org/team/>. GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

found a bug? tell the girlies at the addresses above, they will absolutely handle it 💌

Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

no warranty bestie 😭 that's the whole deal, she's free software and you get zero promises, to the extent permitted by law

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

sleep(3)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'

and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this is GNU coreutils 9.12, dated September 2026 — go forth and pause things, you absolute main character 🧚‍♀️⭐

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