NAME

sleep — delay for a specified amount of time

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The sleep utily shall suspends execution for the total of each duration argument.

duration is a string containing non-negative decimal numbers including floats, terminated by a suffix: s for seconds, m for minutes, h for hours, d for days. If the final number doesn't have a suffix it is assumed to be seconds. Longer durations are taken as out of scope.

EXIT STATUS

The sleep utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

at(1), crontab(1), nanosleep(3)

STANDARDS

sleep should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>