sleep - Man Page

• Delay in seconds: sleep seconds
• Execute a specific command after 20 seconds delay: sleep 20 && command

tldr.sh

sleep NUMBER[SUFFIX]...
sleep OPTION

Pause for NUMBER seconds.  SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days.  NUMBER need not be an integer.  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

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sleep(3)

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

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