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diff --git a/misc/delay/pkg-descr b/misc/delay/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d715bc761393 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/delay/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +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 +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: + +delay 1d 2:03:04.5 +delay 1d 2h 3m 4.5s +delay 93785.5 +delay until 4 pm +delay until noon tomorrow +delay until midnight 13 september 2000 +delay until now + 5 minutes + +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) |