Tick is a simple timer utility for the command line. Think of it as an improved sleep.
The only dependency is a Go installation. To install tick, run this command:
go install github.com/qsymmachus/tick
Running tick -help will print usage guidelines:
Usage of tick:
-m int
Number of minutes the timer should run.
-q Quiet mode, suppresses countdown.
-qq
Extra quiet mode, suppresses countdown and bell.
-s int
Number of seconds the timer should run.
You can use tick as general purpose timer. By default, tick displays a countdown and rings your terminal bell when it's complete.
Run timer for 25 minutes and 10 seconds:
tick -m 25 -s 10
You can suppress the countdown output with the -q flag. It will still ring the terminal bell when it's done.
Let's send this tick to the background with & so we can run other commands while it runs:
tick -m 5 -q &
If you want to suppress the countdown and the bell, use the -qq flag. In this mode, tick works the same way as sleep:
tick -s 3 -qq
An implementation of sleep sort using tick:
#!/bin/bash
function sleeper() {
tick -qq -s $1
echo $1
}
while [ -n "$1" ]
do
sleeper $1 &
shift
done
wait