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17.4.71 sleep

Command: sleep [--verbose] [--interruptible] count

Sleep for count seconds. If option --interruptible is given, allow pressing ESC, F4 or holding down SHIFT to interrupt sleep. With --verbose show countdown of remaining seconds. Exit code is set to 0 if timeout expired and to 1 if timeout was interrupted using any of the mentioned keys.