feature request: sleep --random

[Philip Rowlands]

This would help with some work I'm doing today, but is it of general 
interest?

$ sleep --random 4.0

sleeps for a random amount of time up to and including the requested 
value. The purpose is that on distributed systems it's disruptive to 
have synchronized scripts all starting up together. One option is to use 
the shell's $RANDOM if available, but it's lot of typing to get true (vs 
coarsely quantized) randomness.


Phil