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

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: 7877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: sleep 5 -4
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:26:56 +0800

$ sleep 5 -4
sleep: invalid option -- '4'
$ sleep -- 5 -4
sleep: invalid time interval `-4'

No fair prejudicing negative numbers.

At least document it.
'However, GNU `sleep' accepts arbitrary floating point numbers (using a
period before any fractional digits).' is what it says on Debian.
This bug report was last modified 14 years and 119 days ago.

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