Mark Skelton

Ever wanted to run a super simple timer directly from the command line? Oh, you haven’t? Well, you can still read this anyway since you might learn something 😂.

I built a super basic implementation with a while loop and sleep.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Check if the user has input a duration for the timer
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	echo "Usage: $0 <minutes> [message]"
	exit 1
fi

# User settings
duration="$1"
message=${2:-"Timer done!"}

# Record the start time
start_time=$(date +%s)

# Run the timer
while true; do

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Simple CLI Timer

Simple CLI Timer