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NAME
     sleep - delay for a specified amount of time

SYNOPSIS
     sleep NUMBER[SUFIX]...
     sleep OPTION

DESCRIPTION
     Pause for NUMBER seconds.  SUFIX 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
     Written by Jim Meyering and Paul Eggert.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
     sleep(3)

     The full documentation for sleep is maintained as a  Texinfo
     manual.   If  the  info  and  sleep  programs  are  properly
     installed at your site, the command

          info sleep

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:







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       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.












































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