On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 18:35:44 +0000 Dimitris Papastamos <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 06:31:57PM +0100, Mattias Andrée > wrote: > > - Add support for floating pointer numbers, > > which you will find in other implementations. > > > > - Add support for suffixes [s|m|h|d], as > > found in GNU sleep, which is very useful. > > I find these features overkill for sleep(1). > They probably are unnecessary. The few times you need to sleep less than 1 second in a shell script it is acceptable to do it in an inline python script. And for long sleeps you can write shell functions that converts from minutes, hours, or days to seconds.
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