Sleep for Windows

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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.

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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

Switch	Description
-st, –show-time	Show the calculated waiting time.
-h, –help	Show this help.
-V, –version	Show application version.
–license	Display program license.
–home	Opens program homepage in the default browser.

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

Unit	Description
ms	Millisecond
s	Second (default)
m	Minute
h	Hour
d	Day

Exit codes

Exit code	Description
0	OK (no error)
2	Syntax error
1	Other error

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