What does the sleep command do in Linux?

2014年2月7日 — Use the sleep command. Example: sleep .5 # Waits 0.5 second. sleep 5 # Waits 5 seconds. sleep 5s # Waits 5 seconds. sleep 5m # Waits 5 minutes.

One can set the delay amount by seconds (s), minutes (m), hours (h), and days (d). This command is especially useful when it is used within a bash shell script.

2021年9月13日 — It is as easy as typing sleep N . This will pause your script for N seconds, with N being either a positive integer or a floating point number.

2021年7月29日 — Simply, the Sleep command is used in Bash shell scripts to delay the runtime of a script for a specified period before it starts running again.

2024年5月16日 — Using the sleep Command. For example, to cause the shell to sleep for 10 seconds, we can use the command: $ sleep 10s. Copy. Also, to sleep for ...

2023年5月26日 — Explains how to sleep bash script using the sleep command under Linux / UNIX / BSD / Apple OS X to add delay for a specified amount of time.

2020年2月20日 — The sleep command is one of the simplest Linux commands. It is used to pause the execution of the next command for a given amount of time. If ...

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2021年9月21日 — sleep 10 will wait for 10 seconds before continuing, so the progress will not show up until the 10 seconds have already passed. – that other guy.

2022年12月13日 — For example, pause for 10 seconds or stop execution for 2 mintues. In other words, the sleep command pauses the execution on the next shell ...