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bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:08:36 +0000
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On 21/01/11 12:48, address@hidden wrote:
> You see I was trying to make very special arguments to sleep so that I
> can make sure to kill the one I want
>     pkill -u jidanni -fx sleep\ 000022
> It is not clear if that will still work. Maybe the man/info page should
> say a regexp that matches all valid args.

sleeps args are cumulative, so you can: sleep 0 0 0 0 22





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