5 \h'-\w'\\$1\ 'u'\\$1\ \c
10 .TH pause 1 "27 October 1999"
12 pause \- wait for a period of time, or for a keypress
19 program will wait until one of the following conditions is true:
21 Standard input is a terminal, and a key has been pressed on the terminal
22 since the program started.
24 A time limit was specified on the command line, and sufficient time has
25 elapsed since the program started.
27 The program received a fatal signal.
29 The time limit is given as a positive real number, followed by a suffix
36 denoting days, hours, minutes or seconds (which are the default).
38 The standard GNU help options are understood:
40 (which may be abbreviated as
42 prints a description of the program to standard output and exits;
45 prints the version number and exits; and
48 prints a brief usage summary and exits.
52 Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>