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| From: | Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils) |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] sleep: allow ms suffix for milliseconds |
| Date: | Fri, 29 Nov 2019 08:25:42 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/0.9.2 |
On 2019-11-29 05:30, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
* src/sleep.c: Accept ms suffix.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Document it.
When one wants to sleep for some number of milliseconds, one can
do (at least in bash)
sleep $(printf '%d.%03d' $((x/1000)) $((x%1000)))
but that's a bit cumbersome. Extend sleep(1) to also accept "ms" as a
suffix, so one can instead do
sleep ${x}ms
Could be worth it to accept a few other suffixes like "us" and "ns".
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