Re: [PATCH] sleep: allow ms suffix for milliseconds

[Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils)]

On 2019-12-08 21:46, address@hidden wrote:
> On 2019-12-02 13:58, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> > With GNU coreutils sleep (and ksh93's builtin but not that of
> > bash or mksh) one can add a e-3 suffix to get miliseconds (and
> > e-6 for us and e-9 for ns)
> >
> > sleep 1 # s
> > sleep 1000e-3 # ms
> > sleep 1000000e-6 # us
> > sleep 1000000000e-9 # ns
>
> Thank you for the trick (and Berny for the documentation patch).
> It's new to me, but I guess that's what I get for not investigating
> the  info page's notes.

Though it's a nice trick, it obviously depends on the value not
having an E exponent already. When that can be assumed or assured,
it's useful, no doubt.