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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
