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Re: Proposal for a pause command
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Simone Piccardi |
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Re: Proposal for a pause command |
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Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:40:01 +0100 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> Simone Piccardi <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> My proposal is to have inside coreutils a pause command, i.e. a command
>> that just call the system call pause.
>
> Does the coreutils command "sleep infinity" do what you want?
> If not, what's the difference between "sleep infinity" and what you want?
The difference is that I cannot use sleep infinity as an alternative
shell for an user, and my main use for pause is just this (like true or
false).
Regards
Simone
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