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authorNikolaos Chatzikonstantinou <nchatz314@gmail.com>2024-05-14 12:25:47 -0400
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2024-05-15 09:16:38 +0100
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parenttests: cksum: add incorrect data to verify --check & --strict (diff)
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doc: improve the man page for sleep
This patch is part of work done for a project from Google Summer of Code, see the project details at <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2024/projects/E9Jp7RUx>. * src/sleep.c (usage): Directly mention the floating-point option, which is typical for sleeping milliseconds. Also reorganize the text to be 3 lines rather than 4.
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diff --git a/src/sleep.c b/src/sleep.c
index eedf8b850..ad2b349cb 100644
--- a/src/sleep.c
+++ b/src/sleep.c
@@ -42,10 +42,9 @@ usage (int status)
printf (_("\
Usage: %s NUMBER[SUFFIX]...\n\
or: %s OPTION\n\
-Pause for NUMBER seconds. SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default),\n\
-'m' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days. NUMBER need not be an\n\
-integer. Given two or more arguments, pause for the amount of time\n\
-specified by the sum of their values.\n\
+Pause for NUMBER seconds, where NUMBER is an integer or floating-point.\n\
+SUFFIX may be 's','m','h', or 'd', for seconds, minutes, hours, days.\n\
+With multiple arguments, pause for the sum of their values.\n\
\n\
"),
program_name, program_name);