Start-Sleep - PowerShell command help and examples

Suspends the activity in a script or session for the specified period of time. (Start-Sleep)

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 NAME
 
    Start-Sleep 

 SYNOPSIS
 
    Suspends the activity in a script or session for the specified period of time. 

 SYNTAX
 
    Start-Sleep -Milliseconds <int> [<CommonParameters>] 

    Start-Sleep [-Seconds] <int> [<CommonParameters>] 

 DESCRIPTION
 
    The Start-Sleep cmdlet suspends the activity in a script or session for the specified period of time. You can use it for many tasks, such as waiting for an operation to complete or pausing before repeating an operation. 

 PARAMETERS
 
    -Milliseconds <int> 
        Specifies how long the resource sleeps in milliseconds. The parameter can be abbreviated as "-m". 

        Required?                    true 
        Position?                    named 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       true (ByPropertyName) 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    -Seconds <int> 
        Specifies how long the resource sleeps in seconds. You can omit the parameter name ("Seconds"), or you can abbreviate it as "-s". 

        Required?                    true 
        Position?                    1 
        Default value 
        Accept pipeline input?       true (ByValue, ByPropertyName) 
        Accept wildcard characters?  false 

    <CommonParameters> 
        This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, 
        ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, 
        OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type, 
        "get-help about_commonparameters". 

 INPUTS
 
    System.Int32 
        You can pipe the number of seconds to Start-Sleep. 

 OUTPUTS
 
    None 
        This cmdlet does not return any output. 

 NOTES
 

        You can also refer to Start-Sleep by its built-in alias, "sleep". For more information, see about_Aliases. 

 Examples
    
EXAMPLE 1
 

    C:\PS>Start-Sleep -s 15 

     Description
 
    ----------- 
    This command makes all commands in the session sleep for 15 seconds. 

    
EXAMPLE 2
 

    C:\PS>Start-Sleep -m 500 

     Description
 
    ----------- 
    This command makes all the commands in the session sleep for one-half of a second (500 milliseconds). 

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