Re: [coreutils] slimmer alternative to sleep command?

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:44:18 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was wondering if I could avoid the overhead of starting and
> terminating the sleep child process by using a different strategy. 

Instead of bash, you could use a scripting language that has sleep as
a built-in function.  Python, Perl, Guile, Ruby, Haskell...


paul