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.

    ————————– 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).

RELATED LINKS
    Online version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113407