From: Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou <nchatz314@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 16:25:47 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: doc: improve the man page for sleep
X-Git-Tag: v9.6~235
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=684db6cb9b06cbb4f246152da427da6f47aa16cc;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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.
---

diff --git a/src/sleep.c b/src/sleep.c
index eedf8b8505..ad2b349cb1 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);