POSIX shell script and function to schedule commands
(C) Martin Väth (martin at mvath.de). This project is under the BSD license.
This project is practically no longer maintained. Unless you have a special reason, use instead the successor project https://github.com/vaeth/schedule
This script can be used to schedule commands in a multitasking and multiuser environment.
Commands started with this script will wait with the execution until all commands started earlier with this script (possibly by a different user) have been executed.
You can also have several of such command queues or add a command to a queue even if you start it immediately.
To get help about the usage, call
starter -h
There is also a starter_trap function available for execution of
commands within your current shell. To obtain this function use either
eval `starter_trap`
or
. starter_trap
in your current shell or put the following into your shell startup files:
starter_trap() {
if starter_trap=`starter_trap 2>/dev/null`
then eval "$starter_trap"
else echo "starter_trap not found" >&2
return 1
fi
starter_trap ${1+"$@"}
}
Information about the starter_trap function can then be obtained with
starter_trap -h
For installation, copy the content of bin/ in your $PATH.
You also need push.sh from https://github.com/vaeth/push in your $PATH.
If you want that the hard status line is set, also the title script from
https://github.com/vaeth/runtitle (version 2.3 or newer) is required in your
$PATH.
To obtain support for zsh completion, you can copy the content of zsh/
to a directory of your zsh's $fpath.
For Gentoo, there is an ebuild in the mv overlay (available over layman).