sleep

The sleep command makes your script, terminal, or anything else that is bash executable go to sleep for however long you specify

$ sleep 5s

Useful Options / Examples

The default command is sleep [NUMBER] [OPTION] and the number is interpreted by bash as in seconds however in the option arguement you can specify the sleep delay in seconds, minutes, hours, or days

s - seconds

m - minutes

h - hours

d - days

Floating point numbers can also be used

Example command

$ sleep 3m

This command causes the terminal to sleep for 3 minutes

Example command

$ sleep 3.5s

This command causes the terminal to sleep for 3.5 seconds