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Subject: Re: [ast-users] sleep, read timeouts not working with $(printf "%a\n")
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> I tried to use the output of $(printf "%a\n") as input for the the
> sleep, read timeouts and it is not working with, neither is Inf
> supported. Is there a fix for this?
> 
> 

There was a bug in sleep that limits the range of floating point
constants allowed.  However, I was not able to reproduce the
problem you reported with read.
        read -tInf
worked for me in Linux.

David Korn
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