SLEEP(1)

💤 SLEEP(1) — the general commands manual page, bestie edition

okay so this is sleep(1) from the general commands manual, and honestly? underrated icon. she does one thing and she does it flawlessly 💅

🌸 NAME

sleep — pause for NUMBER seconds. that's it. that's the whole gig. no cap ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS

sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION

🦋 DESCRIPTION

Pause for NUMBER seconds. literally just... vibes. but timed 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — print help. your girl needs directions sometimes 😭
• -V, --version — print version. she'll tell you exactly who she is 👑
• <NUMBER> — pause for NUMBER seconds. the main character argument, fr fr ⭐

💖 EXTRA

Pause for NUMBER seconds. and here's the tea on suffixes, bestie — SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours, or 'd' for days. pick your unit, live your truth 🌈

now the part that makes her different from the other girls: unlike most implementations that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating point number. so like. 0.5? iconic. 2.75? slay. she's not like other sleeps 💅

and if you give her two or more arguments, she pauses for the amount of time specified by the sum of their values. it's giving teamwork, it's giving math, it's giving sleep 1m 30s energy ✨

🧚 just so we're clear: she pauses. nothing else. no output, no drama, no side quests. she's quiet luxury.

🌟 VERSION

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

and that's the page, bestie!! 💜 this whole thing is from v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-17, and it lives in the General Commands Manual — SLEEP(1), one and only, periodt 🎀✨