SLEEP(1)                        User Commands                       SLEEP(1)

NAME         top

       sleep - delay for a specified amount of time

SYNOPSIS         top

       sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
       sleep OPTION

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

AUTHOR         top

       Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

REPORTING BUGS         top

       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report sleep translation bugs to
       <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU
       GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO         top

       sleep(3)

       Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sleep>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sleep invocation'

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GNU coreutils 8.29              December 2017                       SLEEP(1)

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