SLEEP(1)

📦 version 1.053, in alpine 3.24

okay bestie, welcome to SLEEP(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation ✨ this is the sleep page, and it’s short, sweet, and doing exactly what it says 💤

💤 NAME 💤

sleep — suspend execution for a number of seconds 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sleep seconds

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

sleep waits for a number of seconds, then exits successfully. The argument is taken as a decimal number with no fractional part — that’s the whole rule, bestie 💅

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

The working of sleep is not influenced by any environment variables. Not a single one. The env is giving background-character energy here 💀

💀 BUGS 💀

sleep has no known bugs. Periodt. 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The Perl implementation of sleep was written by Randy Yarger, randy.yarger@nextel.com 💖

This program is copyright by Randy Yarger 1999.

This program is free and open software. You may use, modify, distribute and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others to do the same. Slay, but keep it open bestie 🫶

cute sign-off: this page comes from perl v5.42.2 and is dated 2026-02-15 — mwah 💋✨

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