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diff --git a/misc/delay/pkg-descr b/misc/delay/pkg-descr index d715bc761393..1233ebb54a71 100644 --- a/misc/delay/pkg-descr +++ b/misc/delay/pkg-descr @@ -1,24 +1,24 @@ -Delay is a program that counts down the number of seconds specified +Delay is a program that counts down the number of seconds specified on its command line. -In this way, it's sort of like the standard sleep(1) command, except +In this way, it's sort of like the standard sleep(1) command, except for the fact that it provides feedback of the time remaining. - With version 1.2 you can also 'delay' until a given time specification. -Here some usage example: +Version 1.3 adds the possibility to launch a command at the +end of the delay time. +Here some usage example: delay 1d 2:03:04.5 delay 1d 2h 3m 4.5s delay 93785.5 -delay until 4 pm +delay until 4 pm -- cdplay delay until noon tomorrow delay until midnight 13 september 2000 delay until now + 5 minutes +delay 15s -- top It allows for short, long, and customized messages for the display of the time remaining. - - author: Tom Rothamel <tom@onegeek.org> -- distfile: delay-1.2.tar.gz (63 kb) - example of output : delay -v until 4 pm tomorrow Time Remaining: 1 days, 07:51:39. - ported to FreeBSD by Gianmarco (gmarco@giovannelli.it) |