Re: Proposal for a pause command

[Simone Piccardi]

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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