sleep

Overview

sleep is a command-line tool that delays for a specified amount of time.

It mimics Unix sleep tool, but has some additional functionality.

It supports floating point numbers.

Syntax

sleep <number>[suffix] [/options]

Pauses for number of seconds, minutes, hours or days.

number can be integer or floating point number.

suffix can be s for seconds (default), m for minutes, h for hours or d for days.

/showdelay option prints total tool run time.

Examples

sleep 10
sleep 10s
sleep 60m
sleep 24h
sleep  7d

sleep 3.7
sleep 3.7e1

sleep 10s /showdelay
sleep 11.5m
sleep 0.1h -showdelay