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

[sunnycemetery]

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.