sleep

sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION

Pause for NUMBER seconds.

Options

pause for NUMBER seconds

Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days. Unlike most implementations that require NUMBER be an integer, here NUMBER may be an arbitrary floating point number. Given two or more arguments, pause for the amount of time specified by the sum of their values.

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 under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.