Sleep for Windows

Sleep is a small console application that pauses execution of a script/terminal for a specified amount of time.

It is very similar to the Linux Sleep program from the GNU core utils package.

This program was made for my private use many years ago. I still use it today, so I decided to publish it. Maybe it will be useful to someone else.

Sleep Sleep 1.0 (2020.08.25)
Pauses for a specified NUMBER of time unit (seconds by default).

Usage: sleep.exe NUMBER[UNIT] [-st] [-h] [-V] [--license] [--home]

Options are case-sensitive. Options and values in square brackets are optional.

Options

NUMBER

Any combination of real, integer, hexadecimal, or binary numbers. Each number may be followed by a time unit suffix. The total waiting time will be the sum of all the numbers provided.
The decimal separator in real numbers can be . (period) or , (comma).
Hexadecimal numbers must be prefixed with 0x or $ (dollar), eg. 0x0A, $0A.
The letter D at the end of the number is treated as a unit of time (days), so if you want to set the wait time to $0D seconds, you must use $0Ds and not $0D.
Binary numbers must be prefixed with % (percent), eg. %1010.

Maximum waiting time: 2³² ms = 49d 17:02:47.295
Timer resolution depends on the operating system and hardware. On my Windows 10: min = 15.625 ms, max = 0.500 ms.

Time units

Exit codes

1. Pause for 1 second:
   sleep 1
   
   
2. Pause for 3.5 minutes:
   sleep 3.5m
sleep "3.5 m"
sleep 3m 30s
sleep 3500ms
   
   
3. Pause for 12h 12m 42s:
   sleep $ABBA
sleep %1010101110111010
sleep 12h 12m 42s
   
   
4. Pause for 2 minutes and 50 seconds:
   sleep 2m 50s
sleep 3m "-10s"
sleep 1.7e+2