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Re: sleep $floatval

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: sleep $floatval
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 18:29:26 +0100
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On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:47:33 -0700
Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What do folks think about sleep being a builtin, which can take
> arbitrary formats and avoid forking an extra process, just to delay?

You can use "zselect -t <hundredths>" to delay a number of 100ths of a second.
(I think I added it before floating point was widely used in the shell.)

It would also be easy to add a sleep subcommand to zsystem.

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