GNU bug report logs - #7877
sleep takes undocumented hex args

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:09:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 7877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 7877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7877: sleep takes undocumented hex args
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:08:36 +0000

On 21/01/11 12:48, jidanni <at> 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. Maybe the man/info page should
> say a regexp that matches all valid args.

sleeps args are cumulative, so you can: sleep 0 0 0 0 22
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