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  Re: Add sleep builtin Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-08-20 19:35 -0400

#14514 — Re: Add sleep builtin

On 8/19/18 10:25 AM, konsolebox wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> 
> The sleep command is often used in loops and using the external sleep
> is expensive.  Perhaps we can add the sleep builtin but have it
> disabled by default to avoid syntax conflict with the external one.

I don't think there's a problem with a `syntax conflict' as long as any
builtin sleep accepts a superset of the POSIX options for sleep(1).

I'm going to wait until after bash-5.0 is released before considering
this. In the meantime, there is the loadable version, which is now built
and installed by default when you run `make install'.

Chet
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