jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > You see I was trying to make very special arguments to sleep so that I > can make sure to kill the one I want > pkill -u jidanni -fx sleep\ 000022 > It is not clear if that will still work.
With today's change using "sleep 000022" will still act just like "sleep 22". I could not change that (and would not want to!) without breaking with years of tradition. > Maybe the man/info page should > say a regexp that matches all valid args. It already describes the format pretty well, mentioning "floating point" and the four suffixes.