Re: timer command?

[Emil Pedersen <emilp@update.uu.se>]

Jeff Maxson wrote:
> 
> what would be a command (or script) which would execute a given command
> after a certain amount of time?  for example I want to run something like
> 
> ./offin 60 poff

You can use:
	yourprompt> sleep 3600 ; poff
or
	yourprompt> (sleep 3600 ; poff) &

60min -eq 60*60sec, sleep takes seconds as agument (man sleep)

Regards,
	Emil




> 
> where offin is a script/command, 60 is the # of minutes before "poff" is
> executed.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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