11. Delaying

Perhaps wait or other commands should be described here also?

11.1 sleep: Delay for a specified time

sleep pauses for an amount of time specified by the sum of the values of the command line arguments.

Synopsis:

sleep [ number[smhd] ]...

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

The only options are `--help' and `--version'. See section 2. Common options.

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