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what is the purpose of the countdown that you need.
You are asking a question not quite specific, like "my car is broken, what is wrong " type of question that nobody can help.
Please write what do you need to do and what have you done by now, so you can get appropriate answer.
Otherwise you will get "Google didn't yeild any great results."
It needs an arguement to start. So if you save it as "timer", make it executable and start it for example with "timer 10" if you want to time 10 minutes. I have it bound to keys in fluxbox to time different kinds of tea.
[schneidz@hyper ~]$ yum search timer
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
================ N/S Matched: timer =================
gnome-applet-timer.x86_64 : A countdown timer applet
: for the GNOME panel
perl-Template-Timer.noarch : Template::Timer Perl
: module
xfce4-timer-plugin.x86_64 : Timer for the Xfce panel
dieharder.i686 : Random number generator tester and
: timer
dieharder.x86_64 : Random number generator tester and
: timer
erlang-cosTime.x86_64 : Orber OMG Timer and
: TimerEvent Service
php-phpunit-PHP-Timer.noarch : PHP Utility class for
: timing
ppl-pwl.i686 : The Parma Watchdog Library: a C++
: library for watchdog timers
ppl-pwl.x86_64 : The Parma Watchdog Library: a C++
: library for watchdog timers
Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for
everything.
Googling "stopwatch fedora" or "stopwatch linux" turned up not much of anything (I googled for stopwatch figuring I might have more luck by finding a stopwatch with a countdown function than I would googling for "counter").
I found this. It counts up, not down, but it might be worth a look.
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