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.TH pause 1 "27 October 1999"
.SH "NAME"
pause \- wait for a period of time, or for a keypress
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B pause
.RI [ time ]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
The
.B pause
program will wait until one of the following conditions is true:
.hP \*o
Standard input is a terminal, and a key has been pressed on the terminal
since the program started.
.hP \*o
A time limit was specified on the command line, and sufficient time has
elapsed since the program started.
.hP \*o
The program received a fatal signal.
.PP
The time limit is given as a positive real number, followed by a suffix
of
.RB ` d ',
.RB ` h ',
.RB ` m '
or
.RB ` s '
denoting days, hours, minutes or seconds (which are the default).
.PP
The standard GNU help options are understood:
.B \-\-help
(which may be abbreviated as
.BR \-h )
prints a description of the program to standard output and exits;
.B \-\-version
.RB ( \-v )
prints the version number and exits; and
.B \-\-usage
.RB ( \-u )
prints a brief usage summary and exits.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR sleep (1).
.SH "AUTHOR"
Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>