sleep - is used to delay for a fixed amount of time during the execution of any script

syntax $ sleep number[suffix]

To make sleep command without any suffix $ sleep 20s

To display help options $ sleep --help

$ cat sleep.sh #!/bin/bash echo "Waiting for 10 seconds..." sleep 10 echo "Task Completed" :x

$ sh sleep.sh Waiting for 10 seconds... Task Completed

sleep command in the terminal with other commands $ ll && sleep 20 && pwd && free -h

regards, T.Dhanasekar