![]() The sleep command | |
Developer(s) | AT&T Bell Laboratories, Microsoft, Microware, Trane Francks |
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Initial release | November 1973 |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, V, Plan 9, Inferno, OS-9, MSX-DOS, FreeDOS, Windows, KolibriOS, IBM i |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | coreutils: GPLv3+ FreeDOS: GPLv2 Plan 9: MIT License |
In computing, sleep is a command in Unix, Unix-like and other operating systems that suspends program execution for a specified time.