EB> Quoting from 'info sleep':
EB> `sleep' pauses for an amount of time specified by the sum of the values
EB> of the command line arguments.

$ man sleep | grep -i argumentS | wc -l
0

EB> That's pretty clear to me.  The --help output (and thus man pages)
EB> are intentionally less verbose, since GNU projects favor info
EB> documentation.

well I'm a man man... usually good enough than deep delving into info
volumes. Plus nowadays on Debian sid
$ info sleep
gets the man page. One needs insider info,
$ info coreutils sleep
to see the actual info page.

>> And mention what is a GNU extension, and what is portable.

EB> You know, you could have done this, and provided a patch that
EB> specifies what you want to see, rather than just a complaint:

But I don't know the details.

EB>     * coreutils.texi (sleep invocation): Document that accepting

OK, thanks.


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