.TH SLEEP 1 .SH NAME sleep \- delay for a specified amount of time .SH SYNOPSIS .B sleep number[smhd]... .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents the GNU version of .BR sleep . .B 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: .IP s seconds .IP m minutes .IP h hours .IP d days