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  Re: Add sleep builtin Ilkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi> - 2018-08-21 11:22 +0300

#14517 — Re: Add sleep builtin

On 21.8. 02:35, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 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).

The sleep in GNU coreutils accepts suffixes indicating minutes, hours
and days (e.g.  sleep 1.5m  or  sleep 1m 30s  for 90 seconds). I didn't
see support for those in konsolebox's patch, so while that's not
conflicting syntax per se, the lack of that option might trip someone.


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Ilkka Virta / itvirta@iki.fi

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