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Old 02-08-2010
Or you could send a SIGSTOP to your terminal from outside with KILL, which will stop it indefinitely until it receives another signal.
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Old 02-08-2010
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Originally Posted by hergp
GNU sleep accepts float numbers as argument. According to the POSIX specs, the literals "inf" or "infinity" are possible string representations of a float number.

See: POSIX specs at strtod

The same is true for the sleep builtin function in the kornshell 93 which also accepts floats as arguments.
That explains everything. :-) Thank you.
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Old 02-08-2010
thanks

Quote:
Originally Posted by hergp
GNU sleep accepts float numbers as argument. According to the POSIX specs, the literals "inf" or "infinity" are possible string representations of a float number.

See: POSIX specs at strtod

The same is true for the sleep builtin function in the kornshell 93 which also accepts floats as arguments.

thanks for the help...
 
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