sleepuntil

This program acts as the famous sleep unix command. The main difference is, that sleepuntil sleeps until a certain time is reached. sleep in contrast sleeps a fixed amount of seconds.

sleepuntil was written to take over simple jobs in maintenance work (e.g., shutdown the mysql server at 06:00 am).

Usage

$ ./sleepuntil -help

Usage: sleepuntil <time> <flags>

  -help
    	Show help.
  -progress
    	Show a progress animation for the remaining time.
  -verbose
    	Be verbose.

Version: 0.1
Please report bugs here: https://github.com/jnidzwetzki/sleepuntil/issues

Examples

Note: You should use the && operator to schedule commands. In contrast to ;, the next command is only executed if the execution of the previous command (sleepuntil) was successful. The ; operator executes the next command in any case. When a wrong date format was specified (or a date in the past) the execution of sleepuntil fails. When ; is used, the next command is executed immediately, when && is used, the next command is not executed.

# Sleep until 04:00 and shutdown the MySQL server afterwards
sleepuntil 04:00 && service mysql stop

# Sleep until 2019-01-02 15:04:05, show the remaining time and restart the apcahe webserver afterwards
sleepuntil 2019-01-02 15:04:05 -progress && service apache2 restart
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License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.