sleep Command in Linux with Examples

DESCRIPTION

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

SYNOPSIS

sleep NUMBER[smhd]…

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.

EXAMPLE

To incorporate pause for 5 seconds or 2 minutes in my bash shell script

To sleep for 5 seconds, use:

sleep 5

To sleep for 2 mintus, use:

sleep 2m

sleep Command Bash Script Example

#!/bin/bash
echo "Hi, I'm sleeping for 5 seconds..."
sleep 5
echo "I'm awake Now."