Sleep command doesn't work in terminal

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In terminal, when I enter sleep 20, it waits 20 seconds and then returns to the command prompt without going to sleep. What am I doing wrong? I tried sudo sleep 20, too.
 
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The sleep command in unix is not the same as putting your system to sleep. The unix sleep command only pauses a process for a short period of time, as you just found out.
 

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