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Re: Add sleep builtin

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: Add sleep builtin
Date 2018-08-22 09:05 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 03:54:44PM +0300, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> [...] and Bash already supports handling
> subsecond times in at least 'read -t', so it's not that far fetched to
> implement it in 'sleep' too.

Ah, excellent point!  OK, that plus the ksh compatibility definitely wins
me over.

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Re: Add sleep builtin Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-22 09:05 -0400

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