On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 07:01:40PM -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: # Hi. Is there no built-in way of making "sleep" sleep in increments # of minutes, hours, etc? The GNU "sleep" can be invoked like "sleep # 1h" for an hour. The FreeBSD one's manpage leads me to believe we # can only use seconds, which is kind of annoying. Is there an # undocmented or missing feature here? Seems really trivial to # implement. # # ~ $ sleep 1h # usage: sleep seconds Perfection is reached when there is nothing left to take away. The GNU format is already an incompatibility. If I want to sleep longer than 3 digit amount in secs, I do the math. The POSIXly *portable* way to do this and document it for the mathematically challenged is sleep $((2*60*60)) # 2h sleep $((7*24*60*60)) # 1w Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)Received on Thu May 30 2013 - 07:48:45 UTC
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