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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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: sleep takes undocumented hex args
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:31:18 +0800

The documentation doesn't say that one can also use hex args:
$ time /bin/sleep 0x10
real    0m16.007s
However not octal args:
$ time /bin/sleep 010
real    0m10.003s
Maybe say how too.
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