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Delay is a program that counts down the number of seconds specified
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on its command line.
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In this way, it's sort of like the standard sleep(1) command, except
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for the fact that it provides feedback of the time remaining.
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With version 1.2 you can also 'delay' until a given time specification.
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Version 1.3 adds the possibility to launch a command at the
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end of the delay time.
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Here some usage example:
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delay 1d 2:03:04.5
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delay 1d 2h 3m 4.5s
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delay 93785.5
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delay until 4 pm -- cdplay
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delay until noon tomorrow
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delay until midnight 13 september 2000
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delay until now + 5 minutes
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delay 15s -- top
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It allows for short, long, and customized messages for the display of
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the time remaining.
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- author: Tom Rothamel <tom@onegeek.org>
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- example of output : delay -v until 4 pm tomorrow
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Time Remaining: 1 days, 07:51:39.
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- ported to FreeBSD by Gianmarco (gmarco@giovannelli.it)
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