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## Name

sleep - delay for a specified amount of time

## Synopsis

sleep [--help] [--version] number[smhd]...

## Description

This manual page documents the GNU version of sleep. sleep pauses for an amount of time specified by the sum of the values of the command line arguments. Each argument is a number followed by an optional unit; the default is seconds. The units are:

s
  seconds
m
  minutes
h
  hours
d
  days

### Options

--help
  Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
--version
  Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.

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