sched 20 “pizza is ready”

philipp.keller — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:16:09 +0000

While coding I often want to set a timer to be reminded when

the pizza in the oven ready
I tried too long to get my bell-and-whistle-but-not-really-necessary-feature implemented (while programming I often don't stop following one certain track until something stops me)
it's time to leave to catch the bus

On linux, the easiest way is to have this in your ~/.bashrc-File:

CODE:

sched () {
(sleep $(($1*60)); xmessage "$2") &
}

For having the popup message "pizza is ready" in 20 minutes, type sched 20 "pizza is ready".

For the bash-beginners (as me): $((math expr)) evaluates the math expression, i.e. 60*5 becomes 300. The parentheses around sleep and xmessage start a new sub process. So this still works if you quit the shell you started sched in.

code.random() » bash

sched 20 “pizza is ready”