debian man page for bup-tick

Query: bup-tick

OS: debian

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bup-tick(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bup-tick(1)

NAME
bup-tick - wait for up to one second
SYNOPSIS
bup tick
DESCRIPTION
bup tick waits until time(2) returns a different value than it originally did. Since time() has a granularity of one second, this can cause a delay of up to one second. This program is useful for writing tests that need to ensure a file date will be seen as modified. It is slightly better than sleep(1) since it sometimes waits for less than one second.
EXAMPLE
$ date; bup tick; date Sat Feb 6 16:59:58 EST 2010 Sat Feb 6 16:59:59 EST 2010
BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.
AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>. Bup unknown- bup-tick(1)
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