Re: [coreutils] slimmer alternative to sleep command?
[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:44:18 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.utils |
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| 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